Envy 6t-1000 SSD upgrade question

I have upgraded my Envy 6t-1000 with a Sansdisk SSD drive.  Everything seems to be going well.
The 32GB HD acceleration cache is still being recognized; does this slow things down?
Should I remove the 32 GB acceleration cache?
Also the fan is still coming on intermittently, should I disconnect the fan?
Thanks

I just bought a sandisk 32 g msata for my Ho dm4. How did you install  it?

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