SATA SDD in Optical bay as slave drive. Anything I should know?

[StormWolf01]

Hello my fellow Nexus Dwellers.

A few months back I bought a used Dell Inspiron 5755 with a few upgrades at a price that I just couldn't pass up.

 

One of the upgrades that it had, was a master drive replacement. Samsung 860 EVO 1TB drive.

[Edit] I forgot to mention right here that I replaced that, with a regular HDD. Reasons another couple of sentences down. [/Edit]

I was originally thinking that I was gonna put the SSD into my other laptop, but this one has turned out to be a lot more of a better daily driver than the other. So that changed my mind.

 

I'm pretty much set on keeping the HDD as the master. Largely due to the fact that I do a lot of virus scanning on the OS. (Windows 8.1 pro)

 

But I'm really wanting to add this SSD to the optical bay (CD/DVD drive) as a slave.

I've already got the adapter, I just haven't gotten around to doing the install yet.

One thing that I am noticing is that this SSD doesn't have a jumper on it. Is that software driven now?

I got my A+ certification about 8 years ago, so I'm not worried at all about the physical installation part. It's just the operating system, and setup that I am wondering about. Especially since this drive is jumperless.

 

 

Any other tweaks that I should know of, for optimizing this?

 

Thanks tons, in advance.

Be Well everyone!

-Storm

Edited January 7, 2020 by StormWolf01

[TheGreatFalro]

Jumpers aren't used much at all these days; some drives have them for manufacturer-specified things, but they pretty much died out once SATA was adopted.

 

Drive installation is really just plug-and-play nowadays. For a brand new drive, usually you need to initialize it, but for the vast majority of things, the OS takes care of it automatically.

[HeyYou]

Yup. Plug and play. If the drive originally had the o/s installed on it, back up any data you want from it, then use disk management to delete all existing partitions, and create one large partition on the drive. Quick format, and you are ready to go.

 

Microsoft is still allowing folks to upgrade older operating systems to win 10 without having to buy a new copy of windows. The in-place upgrade actually works fairly well. I don't know if that is going to remain the case after the 14th of this month. (when support for win 7 ends.) Unless you actually like windows 8......... I hated it with a passion. :D

[StormWolf01]

Thank you very much for the input so far folks. I was kinda thinking that, about the jumpers, but I figured I'd go ahead and ask.

 

Yeah, I need to reformat it. It's currently set up as a bootable drive with a fresh install of Linux on it.

 

HeyYou - well, I kinda bought 8.1 specifically for this machine. Yeah, there's a bad issue with windows explorer here and in 7 that I'd forgotten about. Especially when it disconnects my USB drive all on it's own (Yeah, I've already done the whole power management settings bit) .

But TBH.... the whole thing with the Mandatory updates, and lack of being able to completely control the installation reboots, and the nag screens in 10 just drove me bonkers. One of the other reasons why I'm not putting the SD in the other lappy. It's got 10 as an upgraded version on it.

 

Thanks Falro! Thanks HeyYou! Appreciate you folks :)

[HeyYou]

I turned off notifications in win 10, so I don't get the three bazillion messages any more. If you tell windows that your internet connection is metered, it will only download security updates. (and will give you the option for the feature updates.) You can also set the 'active hours' on your machine, and during those hours, the machine won't notify you about reboots for updates, nor will it simply reboot on you. :) You just get a little icon down in the system tray, and that's it.

 

I am really not a fan of win 10 either....... but, when I upgraded my machine, I didn't get a choice if I wanted to run relatively recent hardware...... There just isn't any support for older operating systems.

[StormWolf01]

I think the thing that made me absolutely refuse to go back to win10, is that the updater literally acts like a virus. If you remove it, or attempt to immobilize it. It will reinstall itself.

Or install components of itself under different names.

If you don't have an activated copy, you can't even do ANYTHING with any of it's components.

And none of those, turn it OFF.

 

I always like, respect, and have come to enjoy a lot of your opinions, HeyYou, so please... don't take this one personal. Win10 just isn't a good fit for me.

[HeyYou]

I think the thing that made me absolutely refuse to go back to win10, is that the updater literally acts like a virus. If you remove it, or attempt to immobilize it. It will reinstall itself.

Or install components of itself under different names.

If you don't have an activated copy, you can't even do ANYTHING with any of it's components.

And none of those, turn it OFF.

 

I always like, respect, and have come to enjoy a lot of your opinions, HeyYou, so please... don't take this one personal. Win10 just isn't a good fit for me.

Oh, don't get me wrong. :) I do NOT like win 10. It represents a direction MS is going, that I do NOT think is going to be good for the consumer...... I have nightmares of 'subscription-based' operating systems coming soon. They are already doing it with office (though you can still buy a copy, and expect it to continue working), only a matter of time before they do the same with their O/S. And since they have such a HUGE market share....... they can pretty much do so, and folks won't have a choice but to pay it.

 

Given my 'druthers.... I'druther have installed Win 7, but, there aren't drivers for the newer hardware out there, that are actually reliable, and stable. (there are some folks in the freeware sector working on it though.)

 

I deal with Win 10 at work every day....... so, I guess I just kinda got used to it. (aversion therapy??) I have been running it a couple months now, and so far, it hasn't been too annoying. But, I turned off most notifications. :) and updates really haven't been an issue either. Maybe I am just lucky? :D

[StormWolf01]

Well... the subscription based thing... yeah. There's a lot of software companies that are transitioning to that. It's a mixed bag. Yeah, it does let them tap the consumer for more than what they might have paid before, just buying the software. But at the same time, it's a lot harder to pirate a software that is subscription based, rather than something that will have a crack put out for it in under a week.

It's also easier to control the illegal use of it, since it's a case of "Oh, this account is being used by 3500 IP addresses." Close that puppy down!

But yeah. The day that an OS goes to that... that's gonna be a dark day.

 

Speaking of which. Cost was a big factor in the choice of it too. This machine is completely 100% microsoft legal. $3.99. Didn't pay them a dime for the headaches and aggrivations that come with 10.

 

Yeah, I don't know what you've got going on there, but you're definitely lucky. That other laptop, I can hear it giving off the notifications from across the room. And hear it when it's hard drive comes back online after the reboot. All said, kinda wish I hadn't wasted my money on it. It collects dust most of the time, and only really gets use when I take with me to go do my time on the "throne". :laugh:

 

The incompatibility hasn't been hardly a problem at all. The only thing I have had any problems with so far, was the bluetooth drivers. Those I had to get from Dell.

And update the USB drivers.

Edited January 12, 2020 by StormWolf01