Hardware Upgrading HP Pavilion DV6 advice please?

[HappyH]

Got a budget of £150 to enhance my HP Pavilion DV6 Notebook. It's got a Hitachi HTS547575A9E384 Hard drive] (750 GB) at the moment, I'm thinking I could get an SSD & use the original 750GB in a portable caddy. 120GB SSD would probably suffice but 240GB probably safer (just over 100GB used on the drive at the moment)?
Any opinions / advice appreciated on decent model/brand of SSD to go for?
Also if I put the original drive in a caddy & connect via USB3 is that a sensible idea & do I need to buy a specific caddy or will any old 2.5" enclosure do?
Cheers in advance,
HH.

 

[little_pob]

How often do you use the DVD drive on it? You can get HDD caddies that replace laptop optical drives.

The drive is SATA 3Gbit/s. Any SATA caddy will do. For read, USB2.0 is quick enough. For write, USB3's speeds are advantageous but needs a USB3 port to take advantage (is backwards compatible at USB2 speeds).

As for SSDs, because of the <0.1ms seek, there is no slow down as they reach capacity. 240/256GB pro

As it's an HP laptop, if you've not already done so, spend a few quid on some thermal grease (AS5, MX-4) and some copper shims for the CPU and GPU (especially the GPU).

 

[HappyH]

Thanks for reply & advice @little_pob.

Not sure I want to lose the Blu-ray drive it came with but I'll have a wee think about as I didn't know about the HDD optical drive caddies. Notebook does have USB3
ports & I'll order up some paste/shims, Cheers.
HH.

 

[HappyH]

Just for info, ordered a Samsung 840 Evo 256GB, a normal sata caddy & a kit with shims/paste. I'll post back when I run into problems installing :silly: unce: :Hit:
HH.