What would be the better SSD solution?

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I have a Dell Inspiron 17R SE laptop that I'm looking to upgrade with an SSD. This laptop has a 1TB SATA HDD, and it also has a mSATA slot to add an additional drive.

I plan to buy a 500GB SSD, and clone my HDD over to the SSD, and replace the HDD and use the SSD as my only drive.

However, I was wondering if it would be a better solution to add an mSATA SSD, put Windows and my programs on that, and keep the HDD for big junk files like my music, documents, etc? I was planning on just having everything on the SSD for speed.

What would you suggest?

Konakona · Answer

its ALWAYS better to get an SSD+HDD then just SSD alone (unless you can afford to get multiple 1TB SSDs, but still you should keep music and movies on a hdd regardless)

id say get an msata SSD and keep your hdd.
If you really wanna get a sata SSD, then take out your old hdd (assuming it doesnt have 2 sata slots, and that for some ungodly reason you want to keep your dvd drive rather then use a dvd drive caddy for it to store another hdd), then you can use a external usb hdd enclosure and turn your hdd into a portable usb hdd.

it would be suitable for music, movies, pics, etc. butit wouldnt be good for storing games or anything on since usb (even 3.0) is not enough bandwidth for transfer speeds that would make gaming a good experience. (maybe usb 3.1)

Jan · Answer

You could use an msata ssd... but I would personally not bother with it. Performance wise that should be little difference. It's just a different interface (msata connects through to PCI port). msata is generally speaking a little more expensive.
From what I understand, you're not going to use the HDD a lot, so I'd put it in a sleeve and connect it to USB if and when needed. Having an additional disk in your laptop that you barely use adds weight plus it sucks up power for nothing (less battery life).

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