You can but I dont get why you would want to take the performance hit. The M2 drive is at least 4x faster than a SATA III SSD.
I I was to do what you are speaking of (not that I would purely because of the performance hit) I would get the drive caddy, move your 1TB spinner to that and then put the SSD in its place and clone the M2 to that drive.
If you are going to keep the M2 drive no matter I would leave it as is and save yourself a bunch of time and simply still relocate the spinner to a caddy and put the SSD in its place and leave the OS alone.
Better option. Clone the M2 you have to a larger M2 and put the spinner in a caddy and the SATA 111 in its place.
Best option, forget the spinner, its slow and outdated and cheap. Pull it out and put it in the closet or sell it off or trade for a case of beer. Get two larger M2 drives and a larger SATA III SSD.
I I was to do what you are speaking of (not that I would purely because of the performance hit) I would get the drive caddy, move your 1TB spinner to that and then put the SSD in its place and clone the M2 to that drive.
If you are going to keep the M2 drive no matter I would leave it as is and save yourself a bunch of time and simply still relocate the spinner to a caddy and put the SSD in its place and leave the OS alone.
Better option. Clone the M2 you have to a larger M2 and put the spinner in a caddy and the SATA 111 in its place.
Best option, forget the spinner, its slow and outdated and cheap. Pull it out and put it in the closet or sell it off or trade for a case of beer. Get two larger M2 drives and a larger SATA III SSD.
All G752 machines ship from the factory with Win 10 installed. If it had something else on it then you did not get a new machine, you got jacked by whoever sold it to you and I would be back up in their faces. G751s were the last ones to have Win 8 installed from the factory.
If you think you have problems now wait until you do a "clean Install". This forum is loaded with posts of driver issues and missing software afterwards. There is very minimal bloatware on these machines, takes like 5 mins to uninstall the few things that are there.
If you are leaving the M2 you wont need to clone anyhow.
If you go with a drive caddy you do lose the optical drive. I know upgrading can get expensive but its actually cheaper to upgrade than to buy them new with larger drives. The 1TB spinners are dirt cheap these days simply because everything is going over to SSD. There is plenty of storage opportunity with 2x M2 and the SATA III.
If you think you have problems now wait until you do a "clean Install". This forum is loaded with posts of driver issues and missing software afterwards. There is very minimal bloatware on these machines, takes like 5 mins to uninstall the few things that are there.
If you are leaving the M2 you wont need to clone anyhow.
If you go with a drive caddy you do lose the optical drive. I know upgrading can get expensive but its actually cheaper to upgrade than to buy them new with larger drives. The 1TB spinners are dirt cheap these days simply because everything is going over to SSD. There is plenty of storage opportunity with 2x M2 and the SATA III.
gtan777x wrote:
Hi guys,
Just a quick question semi related. Got a G752VT-DH72. I've already swapped out the optical drive with an HDD caddy and put in a 2.5" Kingston SSD and kept the 1TB spinner on the HD bay. My question is will it be better to put the 2.5" SSD on the HD bay and the 1TB spinner in the caddy? Are both of them SATA 3 or is the optical drive/caddy connector a slower one?
On the VY it is one SATA-III controller with 2 ports (6Gbps on each) I guess that goes for the VT as well. If you can afford it, get rid of the spinner. You're selling yourself short. There is a lot posted on this forum already about spinners, SSD's (SATA/NVMe), RAID, speed in the G752's and so on and so forth.
