caddy ssd or directly

[thankarezos]

I am about to buy a laptop for my college. I saw that it doesnt worth to buy the model with ssd but that i should buy the hdd model and with the money difference buy an ssd so i will have both hdd and ssd with same money. Now the question is: should i put the ssd on a caddy or swap the hdd with ssd i am planing to keep both hard drives but i dont feel like opening wide my brand new laptop if caddy does same job. Will it perform worse with the caddy than directly pluging it where the hdd is?

[themctipers]

caddy for hdd, sata for ssd

 

make sure there are caddys for your laptop and that your laptop can read a hard drive in its dvd bay

[homeap5]

It should be no difference - both uses sata, BUT quality of caddy may be not as good as direct sata connection, so do what @themctipers said.

[thankarezos]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

caddy for hdd, sata for ssd

will it make huge difference? I am concerned about losing waranty when opening the cover.. i did my research and this laptop model dont have seperate cover for hard drive so i will have to open it completely.

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, thankarezos said:

will it make huge difference? I am concerned about losing waranty when opening the cover.. i did my research and this laptop model dont have seperate cover for hard drive so i will have to open it completely.

on some laptops it might be using sata 2 or sata 1 instead of sata 3, and it might not be able to boot from caddy, but otherwise, no. 

I don't think you will lose warranty if you open up the laptop, I'm pretty sure that's illegal in the US