SSD or Optical Drive?

[Xnitro67]

I noticed that i can get a ssd for this laptop but it would replace the dvd drive. i know as of right now i dont use the disc drive most things now are on flash drives or downloads. this laptop however i am surprised it can play alot of games havent tried late 2014 but im sure itll play at least at 720p which is good enough but if im going to be playing on it more i figure i might get the ssd but of course i believe i need the hdd caddy before i use it. so help me out here please

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

OK, 12.7 mm hard drives are not really designed for caddy usage if I understood correctly. If you have a 7 mm or 9.5mm hdd that you can swap to then it should work fine.

 

[Xnitro67]

it wasnt expensive to get the right one so i got the 9.5mm from same place i can deal with the blinking light till then.

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

OK. I guess that works

 

[Xnitro67]

thanks for helping out

 

[Xnitro67]

this crucial ssd i got is way better than the samsung one i have in my desktop. read/write and access times are better. bf4 only takes 30 secs

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

I know. I was surprised too when I got mine. Just make sure that you regularly TRIM the SSD to maintain the peak performance.

 

[Xnitro67]

trim?

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

TRIM is basically the "garbage collection" for your SSD. Because NAND cells write fastest to blocks in "0", TRIM erases all blocks of files that you have deleted to 0, speeding up the SSD. It can be used in windows defragmenter if it says the drive is an SSD.