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Hi everyone.

I have a Dell 3560 with a 750gb HDD and 30gb msata ssd with Intel Rapid Storage Technology for cache. I would like to upgrade to a SSD to increase performance, but I am wondering what is the best way to do it.

- Do I replace the msata drive with a large 250gb and make it a boot drive, keeping the existing HDD for storage?
- Replace the current HDD with 500gb SSD, and keep the 30gb msata with IRST? (in this case I am also thinking to replace the optical drive with a caddy adapter where I can put my hdd for storage)

I am not sure if the msata 30gb IRST drive will become redundant after installing a SSD or it will actually help with performance.

Thank you for your help.
 
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If you are short on cash I would get a bigger mSATA, use that as your OS drive, then use the 750 for storage. that is what I do on my Dell XPS Studio 1640 (Its almost 7 years old). I put in a 120GB SSD for OS and main programs and then kept my 750GB Seagate SSHD and got a HDD card for DVD drive (mine was busted anyways) and then use that for storage.

I will say this. On my PC it is a pain to get out the HDD Caddy in the DVD Slot. Had to remove motherboard and everything. If this is difficult to remove like mine i would just remove the hard drive, install the new SSD so that it is the ONLY drive, then install windows and Then add the drives.

Also adding a SSD Cashe to a SSD is pointless SO I would just ditch the whole DVD caddy and...
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If you are short on cash I would get a bigger mSATA, use that as your OS drive, then use the 750 for storage. that is what I do on my Dell XPS Studio 1640 (Its almost 7 years old). I put in a 120GB SSD for OS and main programs and then kept my 750GB Seagate SSHD and got a HDD card for DVD drive (mine was busted anyways) and then use that for storage.

I will say this. On my PC it is a pain to get out the HDD Caddy in the DVD Slot. Had to remove motherboard and everything. If this is difficult to remove like mine i would just remove the hard drive, install the new SSD so that it is the ONLY drive, then install windows and Then add the drives.

Also adding a SSD Cashe to a SSD is pointless SO I would just ditch the whole DVD caddy and then just upgrade mSATA like I said. just again remove 750 when you install windows or just clone the 750 to the 250 if you have the space
 
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Martin_S

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Thank you for your reply.
On my pc it is quite a pain to get to the mSata drive and basically i have to disassemble the whole laptop. I am wondering if it would work to keep the 32gb msata, install a 500gb SSD and move the HDD to the DVD slot with a caddy adapter and then use the 32gb cache with Intel RST to boost the regular HDD's performance?

 
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