I have a ProBook 4540s with a 2 TB HDD, and recently I replaced the optical bay with a 12.7mm caddy to add a 1 TB SSD.
I checked with HWInfo and both SATA ports in my laptop aren't speed limited, and are detected as SATA 6.0 Gb/s.
The laptop can boot properly from the SSD at maximum transfer speed (560 MB/s), but when HDD is present as well, the SSD speed decreases to 190 to 300 MB/s.
I was thinking of switching the SSD to the main SATA port and the HDD to the caddy, but I read in some places that the maximum amount you can add in a caddy is 1 TB and my HDD is 2 TB.
It's recommended to switch the drives? What could happen to my HDD if I exceed that 1 TB limit? Should I try something else?
I checked with HWInfo and both SATA ports in my laptop aren't speed limited, and are detected as SATA 6.0 Gb/s.
The laptop can boot properly from the SSD at maximum transfer speed (560 MB/s), but when HDD is present as well, the SSD speed decreases to 190 to 300 MB/s.
I was thinking of switching the SSD to the main SATA port and the HDD to the caddy, but I read in some places that the maximum amount you can add in a caddy is 1 TB and my HDD is 2 TB.
It's recommended to switch the drives? What could happen to my HDD if I exceed that 1 TB limit? Should I try something else?