W530 swap out the DVD for an SSD

I bought a new W530 in late 2012 with a DVD player, a 500 GB mechanical hard drive, a 16 GB SSD cache, and Windows 7. It's been great, but now I'm thinking about replacing the DVD player with a 1 TB SSD. I want the new SSD to be the boot drive (of course) and I want to retain the 500 GB mechanical HD for additional storage. This would be similar to the way my desktop computer is configured (except my destop computer does not have a 16 GB SSD cache). What do I need to do? Does the new SSD go where the existing mechanical HD is located? Does the mechanical HD then need to go where the DVD player is? Do I need to remove or disable the 16 GB SSD cache? What do I need in addition to the new SSD? Additional rails or any other hardware? Also, I would like to clone the existing HD data onto the new SSD. What software do you recommend for that? Thank you.

Hello.
The best thing to do is to put the old mechanical drive in the HD UltraBay caddy, which then can be hotswapped out for the DVD drive should you require it. If you get a Samsung Evo drive, then the Samsung Migration Software is quite adequate to clone the drives if they are MBR (legacy) partitioned, but otherwise, both Clonezilla (linux based) and Macrium are other very useful cloning programs, both free. Clonezilla has the advantage of being bootable both from USB / CD, and it is very fast. Macrium you have to run within Windows.
When you got your SSD and the HD Ultrabay caddy, just drop the SSD into the caddy (or a USB docking station if you got one), and insert it into the machine, thus leaving your original platter drive in its place as 1st boot device, clone all the drive over to the SSD, all partitions and resize the OS partition to fill up the drive if your SSD is larger. (You can also create a new partition for the remaining space, it's all a matter of preference). Once done cloning your drive, turn off the machine, replace the HD with the SSD and boot your computer up. Only when you got it booting as it should, shoud you insert the old platter drive into the Ultrabay and format it, deleting all partitions so the old bootloader doesn't stay active.
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You can safely remove your 16GB mSATA cache card, you won't need it when running your OS from SSD. There are rails on your platter drive now, but an SSD doesn't require them, so just move the rails with the platter drive over to the HD UltraBay caddy and you should be all set.
Happy upgrading!
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