Can someone help me pick an mSATA SSD for this laptop?

[hoorah]

http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-of...s0SUoDS93j0caw

Its an HP Envy 15t-j000. My father needed a new laptop for his business and picked this one, but he wants to upgrade it to have an SSD.

From HP, you can purchase up to 24GB of SSD as 'cache' for the standard hard drive.

Obviously, I can pull the standard hard drive and put in a 2.5" SSD. I'm wondering though if I can, instead of adding ssd cache, I could simply put a 128 or 256GB mSATA SSD drive in the mSATA port, reformat the machine using the mSATA to boot, and use the 1TB as a secondary drive.

Are there any hardware limitations to this?

 

[Essence_of_War]

You should be able to do that. Caching SSDs are just small capacity msata's usually (unless they're some proprietary interface, but I don't think HPs are...).

It should be a fairly straight forward process of:
1) Either cloning the HDD or Imaging+Restoring the HDD to the msata SSD
2) Switching the boot order.

Here's a detailed run-through for a ThinkPad, but the basic idea should be the same:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/triple-your-speed-how-to-install-an-msata-ssd-boot-drive-in-your-laptop

Full back-up, check out the bios before you commit yourself to messing around etc etc