Old W530 of 2 years looking for a new departure.

So, I almost had my W530 for 2 years now and he's been a champion! However, I want to breathe a little life is and made some improvements in the process.

So I currently processor i7-3820QM and 8 GB of ram and a 500 GB drive spinning.

I can't tell exactly what kind of RAM I have installed without pulling on my keyboard. Not afraid of what I got just not to do it again. I plan on adding 16 GB (2 GB 8 sticks). Should I worry about compatibility?

I want to add a new 500 GB SSD drive as the OS drive and the primary storage and keep my energy for the storage of backup/more.

I would use a mSATA for this drive so I can keep my optical drive but have heard that it's actually a somewhat slower connection to the mSATA. Is this notable or should I just bail on the lens as it barely gets used and throw one of the disks in there?

Then it would be better to create recovery discs or do a fresh install of windows? I think I read somewhere that if perform you a recovery to an SSD of a top which operating system entirely will not use the speed of the SSD.

Words of wisdom?

Thanks for the help!


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