Hard Disk Drive Upgrade Strategy

[ramone_kalsaw]

I'm in the final phase of researching my harddrive/DVD burner upgrade strategy to get ready for digital editing. I've identified the internal HDD/enclosure and DVD burner/enclosure. But before checking out my shopping cart, it occurred to me that I could also slip a new harddrive into the shell of my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop by replacing either the DVD player or CD player-burner.

 

Is there a performance benefit to be had by putting a second harddrive directly into an open laptop bay, rather than adding an internal HDD in an enclosure?

 

Thanks!

[Deverill]

As long as the connections are the same type then none that I can think of. If, for example, you have a choice of internal versus external USB drive then there would be an obvious different since the bus is faster than USB.