ENVY Touchsmart 15-j003cl bootable m2 ssd options

[pcuser64]

My Laptop has i7-4700MQ 2.4ghz cpu, 16gb ram, 1tb hard drive and an open m2 x 2.5 slot

I found a Zheino Q3 mSATA3 240gb SSD 3D NAMD SSD card

Specification:

    Specification:
    Capacity: 240GB
    Size: Msata 30x50x3.5mm
    Interface:mSATA III
    Model Number: CHN-mSATAQ3-240
    Read Speed:510MB/s
    Write Speed:420MB/s
    4KB Random Read IOPS: 5260
    4KB Random Write IOPS:32021
    input Voltage:3.3V
    Idle:0.79
    Active:1.71
    Write Endurance: 3000 P/E cycles
    Read Endurance: --
    Data Retention: More than ten years
    MTBF: 3 million hours
    Working Temperature: 0~70
    Storage Temperature: -40~85

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And this:

Samsung 860 EVO 250GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive, 512MB Cache, SATA III

no spec but looks like the correct form factor

can anyone confirm either these SSD's will work with my hardware as a boot drive?

if not can you tell me what will?

TIA

[Huffer]

The mSATA will not work as a bootdisk unless at the same time there is nothing in the 2.5 inch bay. As soon as a 2.5 inch HDD or SSD is attached the BIOS will prefer that as the bootdisk and you will not be able to boot from the mSATA. You want to use the 2.5 inch bay and the Samsung 860 Evo is the hardware to use. On that model the mSATA is designed to be used solely as an accelerator cache with a 16 or 32 gig mSATA disk. And that only works with a mechanical hard drive. You cannot accelerate an SSD with an SSD in this kind of system, which has been bypassed by more modern alternatives. This solution came about back when SSDs were just coming out and they were crazy exensive. My forst Evo 840 SSD 500 gigs cost like $400 "in the day" and this is a way to have near SSD speed at a much lower cost. Not as much of an issue now, although Intel Optane has some superficial similarities. 

[pcuser64]

Thanks for the info..My ultimate goal ws to exchage the mechanical drive  for SSD & install the mSata as well

So the BIOS will perfer the 2.5 SATA as boot I got that..

will the mSATA SSD a least be seen as a secondary drive if not bootable?