Question about HDDs and SSDs for Clevo P650SA

I bought a Clevo P650SA and it's supposed to come in tomorrow. I was looking around at information I needed to know and I noticed one reseller will not put an SSD (they will put an msata ssd in the laptop though) in the laptop if you have a normal HDD selected for the primary slot. I know that the hard drives are placed right on top of the other in the laptop and I was wondering if heating or another issue with the controller was why they wouldn't. I got the default HDD that powernotebooks has listed for the laptop and, because it was cheaper and I'm not really a stranger to computer hardware, I bought myself an SSD to install myself. I got a 250GB Samsung 850 Evo 2.5 inch SATA3 SSD. (I learned about the issues with the 840 EVO after buying it, don't berate me about it)

I just want to know if I'm going to run into problems trying to run these things on top of each other. It's an HDD and an SSD laying on top of each other pretty much.

I was wondering if I needed to send the 850 EVO back and get an M.2 mSATA SSD instead. I know there are some heating issues with it too though.

thanks in advance for any information.

 

The problem is the space. If you can get them to both physically fit and slide into the ports right they will work fine.

 

The 250 is Roughly 7mm (6.8mm), my understanding is that you will be able to fit a 9mm Drive & a 7mm drive in the 2.5 space allocated for the standard HDDS, i myself will be doing the same, i have a sata3 spinner 1tb & a 500Gb Evo i plan to stack based on what ive read & seen, so IMO, you should be ok as long as your standard drive inst gigantic.

 

Well, because the reseller I bought it from won't put an HDD and an SSD in at the same time I have reason to believe that the standard drive is too big. I will try though. I should be able to return the SSD even if it's opened claiming that it won't fit... I hope.
Just in case, if anyone has any recommendations for relatively cheap m2 drives, I'd like to know. anywhere from 75-150 dollars would be good. I'll take 120-250 GB for storage size. The SSD was just for the OS and some particular programs anyways

 

To my understanding two 7mm drives will fit. My NP8651 will be here tomorrow and so i'll let you know how the drive installs go if you want.

 

that's the problem, I don't know the physical size of the hardrive that came with the laptop, I won't be able to until tomorrow. It might not be a 7mm drive. It's whatever sager ships with it. Xotic and other resellers are willing to put 2 SSDs in but not an SSD and an HDD (which I suppose I should say Sager is willing)
By the way, thanks for replying quickly Hutsady.
Let me know anyways but I have a feeling it will go fine and still not be useful information for me.

I think I'm going to try the install tomorrow CleverPsyeudonym, I'll let you know how it goes

 

From my looking around and emails with various resellers the only 7mm drive I found as an option was from Eurocom for the Travelstar Z5K1000.

 

Fun fact, the Laptop Reviews section of user reviews has a NP8651 configured with a 120Gb 840 EVO and a WD7500BPKX-22HPJT0 (9.5mm). So YMMV.

 

Thanks for the info, could I get a link to that review? All of my searches turned up nothing (which is why I made this topic)

 

The 2nd 2.5" HDD bay is 7mm only, so you can do a HDD and SSD but you just gotta put them in the right slots.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/digital-storm-triton-review-clevo-p650se.771985/

That is the URL to the review on here that I found. Googling the model number of that drive showed it to be 9.5mm with a SSD install alongside it, however I may have found incorrect information on the drive (happened to me last week, so I returned my 9.5mm Travelstar.) My preliminary research turned up the same as what Hutsady is quoting you, hence my decision to use a 7mm SSD in conjunction with a 7mm 1TB HDD for multimedia storage.

 

Thanks everyone for the help. Jawls I saw that review before, but I didn't realize the hard drive was that size.

I got both of them installed successfully (still looking for my OEM windows disc and my external disc drive, they're in some box from a recent move) into the laptop, though I had one issue. Because of the size difference, one of drives will always be misalligned, so you won't be able to secure them with all 8 screws. What I did was diagonally secure one drive with 2 screws and the other drive with 2 screws on the opposite ends. It seemed fairly secure. Both drives were able to plug into motherboard without issue.

 

Hopefully the connector is not under too much stress.

 

Update (I know it's old): It's been almost 2 months. I have everything installed, and everything seems okay (other than some stutters and issues probably stemming from the fact that my OS isn't SSD optimized yet and I'm running games and other software off of the HDD instead of the SSD with the SSD being the primary drive)

 

By OS optimised even unless it is misaligned the SSD itself should not stutter.