Upgrade for Laptop

[pokerking]

Hi have an dv7 with a i7 16Gb of memory a GT 650M with a 1TB HDD, I am wanting to bring some life back to the Laptop and an SSD seems a nice move, it has an extra bay for another HDD and a mSATA under the cover

So I could in theory have my 1TB HDD as a storage drive an SSD for my OS and a mSATA drive for well I have no idea ha!

I would need to buy an adapter kit for another HDD as I need the cable and power adapter these I can buy off eBay.

Looking at the specs it in the PDF it mentions,

Hard drive Supports 6.35-cm (2.5-in) hard drives in 12.7-mm (.50-in), 9.5-mm (.37-in), and 7.0-mm (.28-in) thicknesses (all hard drives use the same bracket)
Customer-accessible
Serial ATA
Accelerometer protection support
Supports the following hard drives:
● 1-TB, 5400-rpm, 12.7-mm
● 750-GB, 7200-rpm and 5400-rpm, 9.5mm
● 640-GB, 5400-rpm, 9.5-mm
● 500-GB, 7200-rpm and 5400-rpm, 9.5mm
● 320-GB, 7200-rpm and 5400-rpm, 9.5mm and 7.0-mm
√√
Solid-state drives Supports 180-GB or 160-GB drive √√
Supports 32GB mSATA drive √

So I can only use a 160GB max size SSD and 32GB mSATA? Which one would be the best type to use?

Thanks!

 

[biuro74]

I doubt if such boundary in SSD capacity exists, really. Probably it refered to maximum available models, when they was writing spec fot that laptop THAT time.
Just check if mSATA is bootable if you wish to use mSATA drive.
Check if you've got second bay for 2.5" drive = not all laptops have this, so you'd need to use Ebay in such case.
If your HDD is original, so it would keep recovery partition/option, swapping for SSD would delete such possibility, unless you put 1TB SSD inside and make a copy. Simple cloning from bigger to smaller drive not often works in terms of recovery option. If you've got independent OS (boxed), it solves that problem.

 

[pokerking]

I doubt if such boundary in SSD capacity exists, really. Probably it refered to maximum available models, when they was writing spec fot that laptop THAT time.
Just check if mSATA is bootable if you wish to use mSATA drive.
Check if you've got second bay for 2.5" drive = not all laptops have this, so you'd need to use Ebay in such case.
If your HDD is original, so it would keep recovery partition/option, swapping for SSD would delete such possibility, unless you put 1TB SSD inside and make a copy. Simple cloning from bigger to smaller drive not often works in terms of recovery option. If you've got independent OS (boxed), it solves that problem.

Hi,

It can fully boot from mSATA, are these quicker than normal SSD drives? No point getting one and its slower.

The Laptop has x2 bays for HDDs one is empty the other has the 1TB in, just need to get an adapter for it.

Not fussed about loosing stuff, its a W 8.1 laptop so I believe the key is in the Bios so I just need to get a copy of W 8 and reinstall?