dv6t-6xxx SSD Install - Here is how to keep in optical bay

I just recently installed a 128GB Samsung SSD in my dv6t quad. I had read on this forum and others how you need to have the SSD as disk 0 in order for it to boot. A lot of people had moved the SSD to the hard drive location in order to do that. I did not want to do that for the following reason:

The cheap $10 optical bracket I bought was not as secure as the original hard drive mounting location. For an SSD, it doesn't matter. But for a hard drive that has spinning platters and floating read-write heads and such, I wanted a more secure and stable location (less vibration, movement, etc.).

I found a relatively simple solution. Instead of swapping the location of the drives, I just swapped the cables. I cut a small notch in the plastic to re-route the cable for the DVD. It was pretty simple and it allowed me to keep my hard drive in its original location. I thought I'd share what I had done.

It is like everyone says. It makes a HUGE difference in performance. I'm very happy with it.

 

You don't have to had it disk0, just config boot order in bios.

 

I think I am going to do this but for different reasons. Like you said I was worried about the spinning drive in the optical drive bay, but I also DON'T want me SSD in the bay because it is SATA II. This seems like the perfect solution.