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November 19th, 2020 15:00

Installing an SSD on a dell 5537

I am a complete noob so please bare with me.

The plan is to replace the old drive with this SSD, Kingstone A400 m2.5 SATA3 SA400s37

And then replace the optical drive with the old drive of my laptop doesn't have 2 slots for hard drives.

 

I checked the specification of my laptop search for if it has SATA3  and if it have 2 slots for 2 drives and if the oPtical drive is SATA3 and couldn't find any of this info in the official manual.

Here os a pic from the manual.

IMG_20201120_012828.jpg

 

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    Kflash08

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    Posted November 19th, 2020 15:00

    Installing a hard drive in the optical bay requires a bracket adapter. You'll need to remove the face plate off the optical drive and move it over to the adapter so that it blends in with the rest of the laptop. Pretty sure the SATA interface for the optical drive is 150 MB/s, or SATA I. It'll be fine for secondary storage, but you'll see a reduction in speed if you use it as a boot drive or for saving/opening large files.
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    Posted November 20th, 2020 01:00

    So the hard drive is SATA 3 and the optical drive is SATA 1?

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