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I am considering removing my optical drive and putting my primary HDD in its location and putting an SSD as my new primary drive. Does anyone know if the second drive drains the battery considerably? Any feedback, details or warnings that I should know before changing this? Thanks your help in advance :)
How about just swapping out the HD with a SSHD. It will use less power than your dual setup. We gave up on doing dual drive setups between the loss of crash guard and slower I/O though the optical drives port when moving the HD over. Besides you’ll need to make sure the SSD you get is able to work with the SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HD port your system has. Seagate makes a good one we’ve had great success with them. We have over 200 in the field. Take a look here: Seagate Laptop SSHD and here’s the spec sheet: Laptop SSHD. Note the line: SATA Transfer Rates Supported (Gb/s) - 6.0/3.0/1.5 make sure the drive you do get can do the same.
