Satellite P850 - Is the speed of the ODD bay as fast as the HDD drive bay?

I have a Toshiba Satellite P850-31L
I am using a 'caddy' to install a second storage drive in my optical bay. I have an SSD and an HDD and I am wondering which I should install in which bay.
Are the speeds of the bays the same?
Might there be temperature issues?
Any suggestions which drive should go in which bay?
Thanks,
Scott

At first I must say that it will be very interesting to know where you have found this caddy and which part number it has. Maybe you could post the link. I presume you have bought some non-Toshiba part.
Am I right about that?
In my opinion this question is not so important because SSD is much faster in general. I presume you need second drive for data storage so in my opinion you should install SSD in place of HDD to have faster boot and faster notebook in general. Notebooks HDD you should use as second, additional drive.

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