Need some help on deciding what drive to use

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Hi, I'll try to keep this as short as possible as I'm a bit of a noob to this and just want get the max performance from my Laptop.

In November I bought a Dell Alienware m17 R1 and it kept on failing for various reasons and eventually I qualified for a replacement system altogether, which I accepted.
The thing is before the final failure of my old system, I bought and installed a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD and added it to one of the empty hard drive caddies in the laptop and had my OS boot from there, which worked wonders for speed.

My main question now though is that the replacement that they have shipped me is an Alienware m17 R2 and I don't believe has the extra caddy space like the older models do. I brought this up with Dell and they added an extra drive but I'm unsure as to whether the best option would be to stick to what I've got or take out one of the drives while the laptop is new to minimize loss/hassle of data.

So in short I have a spare 2.5 inch Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD and my new system has (according to the program sceppy I'll post the exact models so it's clear) a 1TB Hitachi HGST HTS721010A9E630 and a LITEONIT LGT-512L9G-11 M.2 2280 512GB.
My question is whether it's worth replacing the Litenonit drive with the Samsung EVO and what difference there would be in speed/reliability (if any)

Any help would be much appreciated :) x
 
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The samsung is a 2.5" (laptop size) drive. The LG is an M.2 drive that looks like this and mounts directly to the system board:
PM851-MZMZNTE128HMGR-MZ-NTE1280-128G-2280-M-2-NGFF-SSD.jpg


They are not interchangeable. Sorry.

I would actually swap the samsung in place of the 1tb drive and have an all ssd system but many people, I'm sure, would recommend that you just sell it and recoup some of your money back.

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The samsung is a 2.5" (laptop size) drive. The LG is an M.2 drive that looks like this and mounts directly to the system board:
PM851-MZMZNTE128HMGR-MZ-NTE1280-128G-2280-M-2-NGFF-SSD.jpg


They are not interchangeable. Sorry.

I would actually swap the samsung in place of the 1tb drive and have an all ssd system but many people, I'm sure, would recommend that you just sell it and recoup some of your money back.
 
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kg6450

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Thanks for the response, is there a way I can see which drive my laptop boots from? i.e. The 1TB or the m.2 SSD? when I enter the boot startup screen it doesn't give any indication of the actual name of the drive that it starts from.

I may do what you suggest and switch both SSDs though, as appealing as 1TB storage sounds I think even thats way more than I need at the moment haha