Acer Aspire 5633 and SSD in CD/DVD caddy

I have Acer Aspire 5633 and my CD/DVD writter is not working.

Now, I would like to have SSD in place of CD/DVD.

I have found 2.5" SATA to IDE HDD / SSD Caddy for 12.7mm Optical Drive ( Second SATA HDD Hard Drive Caddy Module Tray Adapter for Laptop - Silver + Black,12.7mm,Optical Bay ). In this caddy, I would like to put SSD that I intend to buy. This way I would have no CD/DVD but would have SSD and HDD to make my NB to last for some more time/years.

But, I have found on Net that SSD cannot be inserted in PC/Notebook unless BIOS is supports SSD.

How to check and what to look for in BIOS to be sure if it supports SSD or not? I have found on this forum that it is, in some cases, possible to unhide some BIOS's hidden menus, as well ??? Maybe there to look for?

Anybody with expirience ???

Thank you.

 

BIOS doesn't have to support SSD. There are rare cases when certain SSD disks don't work in certain notebooks but that has nothing to do with lack of support for those.

That said you do have SATA I in caddy and PATA in the notebook as far as I can work out. SATA I is reasonably slow- so slow in fact that you could buy a 7200rpm HDD that would be close to its limit instead of SSD.

Speed difference would be minimal yet 7200rpm would offer greater capacity for a lower price. If you had SATA II I wouldn't mention it but with SATA I it might be worth consideration.