[SOLVED] Removing second HDD to improve battery life?

[Rian199]

Hey guys! First post. I have a Inspiron 15 7567 Gaming Laptop. (Link below) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Inspiron-15-7000-7567-Gaming-Notebook-Review.196454.0.html

It is the variant being reviewed in the link with the 6 cell 75W battery, so the battery life is already pretty decent for a "gaming" laptop. The warranties about to run out so now I wanna start tinkering. Wanting to see how much I can extend the battery life.

It has a second 1TB HDD alongside the 256GB SATA SSD and I was wondering if any of you know roughly how many minutes I could gain from removing the second HDD and may be replacing the Intel SSD with a larger Samsung EVO SSD?

Will also add more Ram and play around with cooling etc. Any extra tips would be cool too 😉 Thanks!

 

[Barty1884]

Impossible to say, as it depends on specific use cases. BUT, I would imagine it would be fairly negligible.
You'd then be offsetting it some adding more RAM (although you'd gain more dropping the HDD than you'd lose adding RAM).

 

[Rian199]

Impossible to say, as it depends on specific use cases. BUT, I would imagine it would be fairly negligible.
You'd then be offsetting it some adding more RAM (although you'd gain more dropping the HDD than you'd lose adding RAM).

Ah okay, I have just read that adding RAM improves battery life since it offsets drive usage, which is less energy efficient. I might just remove the HDD first to see if there's a difference with just the SSD. Will just need to wait for the warranty to expire.