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I have a Sony Vaio VPCEG i3 laptop. I have already upgraded the RAM to 4GB and the HDD to 5400rpm 1TB HDD. Now Intel states that my Mainboard has SATA III and SATA II ports. I ran system analyzer and found that my HDD is connected to SATA III at 6GB/s. I want to install 64GB SSD in laptop. I figured the best solution would be to remove the Optical Drive and replace it with the HDD and use the HDD place to install SSD. So in principle my SSD would be hooked up to 6GB/s and HDD to lesser speed. But is this OK and advisable? Any other better option?
 
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Yes, this is OK, and many people have been running their laptop with this kind of upgrade. Just get a caddy bay ( which acts as an adapter ) that fits your laptop's ODD bay so that you can put your HDD into it ( and put the caddy bay into the ODD bay ) and you're good to go. Take note that the SSD you want to put into your laptop must be as thin as the current HDD.
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It would have been useful to know what SATA specification the HDD & SSD are to properly answer your query.

If the HDD is SATA III, I would leave it on the SATA III port to maximise it's performance. The SSD's performance will be inherently fast anyway by virtue of it's technology (flash storage & no moving parts).

However, if the HDD is only SATA II, there's no point in having it connected to a SATA III port anyway, and the same applies to an SSD that's only SATA II.

 
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Yes, this is OK, and many people have been running their laptop with this kind of upgrade. Just get a caddy bay ( which acts as an adapter ) that fits your laptop's ODD bay so that you can put your HDD into it ( and put the caddy bay into the ODD bay ) and you're good to go. Take note that the SSD you want to put into your laptop must be as thin as the current HDD.
 
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I was under the impression that these 2.5" SSD comes in standard sizes which are similar to the 2.5" HDDs. And I suppose if that is the case, given that the laptops are normally congested to the max any difference is size even more than 2-3mm would be unusable. Right?

Also, how can I be sure of the port that my ODD uses like the specification of the port, its speed, whether its a SATA II or SATA III etc?
 
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Its HGST Travelstar 2.5-Inch 1 TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 8MB Cache Internal Hard Drive Kit 0S03508.

So I believe its SATA III and you are suggesting I keep it that way and put the SSD in ODD spot and connect it to a slower speed port. BTW, I am running Windows 8.1 64bit and my intention is to use SSD as my C Drive for the OS and all installed applications.

 
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There are two standards : 7mm and 9.5mm thin for 2.5" drives. Width and length are the same between these two standards.

Drive in ODD bay are mostly connected to the laptop via a SATAII port, although some 2012/2013 models use SATAIII port instead. However, a HDD doesn't take any advantage from SATAIII port over SATAII one, so its speed will be the same no matter what generation of port does your laptop offer.
 
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