Replacing Optical with HD/SSD in SA/SB/SC/SD series

[lazybee]

The little mod that was worked out and in this thread works like a charm. Slightly more hassle for a superior or equal product.

[coldcase]

The little mod that was worked out and in this thread works like a charm. Slightly more hassle for a superior or equal product.

I might have to go that route.

[nwojack]

Today was a good day. Received my SA, installed extra 4GB RAM, Intel 510 SSD, installed fresh system and all drivers without any issues (took me 70 minutes) and received my ODD caddy. Well, seller goofed up a bit and sent me wrong item so I have to exchange it. Caddy he sent me doesn't have removable faceplate but other than that fit in ODD bay.

Can you tell me your 510 SSD is working under SATA3 or 2?
Cuz i have the same system as u have, but my 510 is only running in SATA2..
should I install anything drivers or ?
I will be highly apperciated for youor help..

[lazybee]

You will have SATA 3 Speeds if you install the SSD where the original hard drive came installed.

The Optical Bay is rated at SATA 2 and would be best suited for a hard drive.

[thelibran]

I have been running on my 120GB 510 series SSD since i got my SB. I just got my caddy from newmodus this morning and installed the 500gb hitachi OEM which came with the laptop. BIOS dont detect the hdd but it looks fine within windows 7. i was wondering if this is the case for everyone else. Can I possibly install linux in the HDD and boot from it by changing in BIOS?

thanks for ur replies in advance.

[lazybee]

I'm not entirely sure about this setup, however I believe you can set the bios to boot from either 'external device' or 'cd drive' first before the 'hard drive'

A really quick test would be installing something along the lines of damn small linux and testing if it boots. As long as you have not loaded it up with data yet it is a quick way to rule out, or rule in this possibility.

I would test it myself but I've filled my secondary drive already!
Please report back as I'm very curious about how this works out. Can't wait to hear the results!

[thelibran]

hwinfo says SATA 1.5 Gb/s for hitachi and 6 Gb/s for SSD. just found out there is a new BIOS update. downloading it. now. gonna install ubuntu or so for the sake of finding out if i can boot by selecting optical bay

[jeremyshaw]

The new BIOS update reported limits the main SATA port to 3gbps speed, though no one has confirmed with benchmarks, so...?

[thelibran]

googled with the BIOS version and found a thread which said so. so avoided updated BIOS. now gonna try fedora on second hdd.

[thelibran]

just installed Ubuntu. installation went smooth. i selected the Hitachi drive to install grub and it wont boot from the obhd. i think i shud try installing GRUB to SSD MBR and it might redirect from there.