Worth upgrading MB to dual SSD & HDD combo

Hi,

I have been looking at getting a new MBP however the current offerings aren't what I am after in terms of performance so I have rethought my strategy and will keep my unibody MB but upgrade the speed with an SSD.

But is it worth it and is it the right route to take?

I plan on removing the optical drive and replacing it with a mount for a normal HDD, I will move the current 500gb HDD to that bay for storage and then buy a new 240gb SSD to use as the main drive.

I will keep current projects and software and the OS X on the SSD of course and things like music and old projects that I still need on the second HDD.

Current Specs:
13" Macbook Alu Unibody late 2008 (I think).
8GB 1066mhz RAM
500gb hdd 5200rpm
Nvidia Geforce 9400M 256mb dedicated graphics card

The total cost will be under £100 for the upgrade.
Something like a Crucial M500 or a Samsung 840 Evo
along with a mount for about £10.

Then I will go ahead with this in a month when I finish some major projects (the reason I want to upgrade!).

I do need the storage as I have about 400gb on it at the moment with the adobe creative suite as well as other big program's like autoCAD, Maya and Aperture with 140gb of iTunes. I also archive everything on external HDDs (7tb) so storage is still needed and I cannot justify the larger ssd drives against this solution.

Given the speed of the existing hdd I don't think I will notice much speed decrease moving it to bay 2.

I looked at the fusion drives first but figured they won't be much good for my use as they apparently have only very small ssd drives in them such as 4-8gb and swap the highly used files between this. I work on Photoshop files between 2-3gb so want to have these on the ssd whilst working so it doesn't take 5 minutes every time I save the file (back to where it is located). A small 256ish ssd should cover all the OS X, Apps as well as the current projects I am working on #

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P.s. Probably a silly question! But... Does anyone know of anything else I can upgrade with my system or once with an SSD this has been completed will it be fully max'ed out again?

The ram is 8gb which I believe is still the max for the late 08 macbook Uni.

I belive it has gigabit Ethernet which would be faster than the current USB ports so maybe I could get USB 3 out of the Ethernet or something? Graphics are soldered on I believe?

Would it make any difference at all what kit I use to mount the hdd into the optibay? Cheap vs expensive?

Might as well get on with it.

So this should do it right?!

2nd Bay mount for hdd £7: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Replacement...d=1397603525&sr=1-87&keywords=macbook+optical

I'm just comparing the Crucial M500 240gb at £85 and the samsung eve 840 250gb at £100.

According to this the samsung is way way better: http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-840-Evo-250GB-vs-Crucial-M500-240GB/1594vs1551

as well as this: http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feat...840-evo-battle-mainstream-ssds/conclusion-162

So looks like I am going to spend the extra £15 and get the samsung 840 eve 250gb drive for £100 : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-250...s&ie=UTF8&qid=1397604370&sr=1-13&keywords=ssd

so total spend is £107, is that all I need then to go ahead with it?

I already have a full set of torx and precision screwdrivers so I won't need them to be bundled with it.

Nice to know others have done the same route! I agree it should last plenty more years after

All ordered through amazon prime so will be getting them tomorrow

I figured I only need the macbook to last about another year and a half then I won't need it anymore and will probably trade it in for an air or iPad! So the ssd will bridge that gap

Got it all installed a couple of days ago following next day delivery, it helps but not a huge difference, I think snappier is the best word. Decent upgrade still and as I said will bridge the gap I needed.