mSata SSD or caddy Sata SSD ?

Hi brothers and sisters of this webpage.

I like advice to upgrade to SSD for Dell Precision m4600. I wanted to buy Intel 310 80GB which always turns to OOS. Intel is making not enough of this.

Alternatively i imagined buying a sata Caddy to replace my optical drive which becomes useless except of installing Windows again. I saw recomendation of newmodeus but their caddy cost $40 bucks before shipping, expensive when amazon ebay sell similar for $20 bucks with shipping! Ripoff for a OEM product made in China i presume.

So which is faster for the SSD? A direct msata-pcie connection for Intel 310?

With a caddy, i think i get more gb/$, 5 years support if using Intel 320 2.5" SSD but can caddy from amazon ebay works as fine as newmodeus?

Thank you for reading and participating.

 

are you in the us? amazon and newegg have the intel 310 in stock quite frequently. i bought mine on amazon. if i was gonna drop 200 bucks on an ssd, not exactly pocket change, i wouldnt want to use it as a patch job caddy install

 

dear sir,

Amazon and Newegg are out stock until end of next week! How you manage find stocks? Amazon stocks are from other merchants, can i trust their ship dates? Intel!

How is the 310 SSD treating you on m4600? My plan is to use Intel clone software and copy the HDD to SSD. Does it work as easy with the msata slot? In my PC, i need to select boot drive after cloning.

 

i didnt clone my drive, i didnt want to go thru any headaches of partition alignment problems etc..

you just need to check newegg and amazon every day. newegg had 20 in stock just a day or two ago, and amazon had 7 in stock about 4 days ago.

i mean doing a fresh install isnt exactly a big job.

i just stuck the 310 in, installed windows, and then followed the dell re-imaging guide to update firmware and drivers. I then formatted my hard drive and stuck all my video files and other bulk media on it.

 

mSATA SSD's have grown in popularity, especially with 1 HDD notebooks. This allows you to still have a decent sized SSD boot drive, and still have a fast mechanical drive or if you are really loaded, another SSD.

 

SSD is great so i ask if the oem m4500 caddy can work in m4600 bay? I checked and found the difference of the two is m4500 caddy has a eject button, m4600 is no eject button. Pls provide help thanks you.

 

it is not compatible

 

Oh bugger dear. Now i have wait for 310 SSD...not going to pay price of newmodeus caddy...

 

for a $200 part, i would definitely wait!!

 

You shell out 200 squid for the SSD but the 30 bucks that the newmodeus caddy costs more than a cheap ebay thing is a problem?

Besides that:

main bay, optical bay, mSATA slot, eSATA connections: they are all identical channels off the same SATA controller chip. I fail to see that there could be any advantage for one connection over the other. The only difference would be in the SSDs you connect.