Hi
i owe a dell precision M4700 (MID 2012) with the following config:
PROCESSOR, I7-3840QM, 2.8, 4C, IVY, E1, P
NO RAID, VANS15/17
it came with one SSD drive and a DVD writable drive.
i am trying to add a second HDD(an SSD drive) instead of the DVD but it doesnt seem to work as it should.
i got the HDD Caddy from "newmodeus.com" online store.
i took out the DVD , put in the caddy with the new SSD drive attached boot up windows 8.1 and so far everything has been good, the bios detected the drive in the Caddy as "system device bay" the OS detected the drive as a second hard drive and it seemed like plug and play upgrate.
but here is the problem, the Caddy SSD functions (performance wise) as it was a regular 7200 RPM hard drive.
doing banchmark on the second SSD provides 100mb write and read speed.
i performed a secured erase using the SSD company utility performed "SMART" checks and all attributes are enable .
could it be that something is blocking the Caddy from getting the necessary voltage or power resource ? originally the DVD sata 2 port was getting a voltage to a DVD ROM, now there is an SSD in that bay so maybe the SATA 2 port still functions in a low voltage mode?
or maybe the SATA port is still configured by the system as an IDE?
i would like to just know if a second hard drive (in my case an SSD) can be added to the optical bay and actually function as SSD because the optical bay sits on SATA 2.
thanks