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Upgrading a dell inspiron 17R 5720
Hello everyone
I have a dell inspiron 5270 with
- intel core i7
- 1 Tb HDD
- 6gb sodim DDR3 (1x2gb and 1x4gb)
I love this laptop, but I want to upgrade it, but I cannot find any decisive information about a msata ssd (and to how much gb it can go), if a normal SSD works (my brother had one placed but it didn't work), if the optical drive can be swapped for a hard drive caddy and if having a ssd externally is as good als internally
Furthermore, sometimes the laptop just shuts down, usually during gaming, I think it has to do with temperature, but it doesn't feel extremely hot when I check
Answer on any of these questions are welcome
Thnx in advance
ejn63
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November 25th, 2020 09:00
According to the manual, the mSATA socket will take up to a 32G drive. It's designed to cache the main hard drive.
You may be able to install a higher capacity mSATA drive, but even there you'll face limits, since these weren't made in large numbers at high capacity (the largest common size was 512G). This is also a dead-end technology you won't be able to use in any future system, and the per-gigabyte price will be high as a result. Also, most mSATA drives max out at 3G/s or half what you'll get from an internal 2.5" SATA SSD.
Best course of action: install a 2.5" SATA SSD in place of the hard drive, and if you want to install the existing hard drive in a caddy for storage purposes, do that. There very often is a slower SATA channel for the optical drive bay, so installing the SSD there will hamstring performance -- and you may not be able to boot a drive installed into a caddy.