Extra sata port on laptop

[Ethan Daniel Smith]

I bought the acer aspire 15 e5-575g-53vg laptop off of amazon yesterday. Still waiting for it to arive. It has a sata port that is unused in it where there should be a cd/dvd drive and i was wondering if yall had any suggestions for what to put there other than the obvious lol. I was wondering if yall think i could buy a soundcard and use a pci e to sata coverter if they make one and do that. I also have other ideas. Install hdd. Install cd/dvd drive. Buy xbox 360 wirless reciever and connect to sata through usb to sata coverter. (do you think it would detect it if i did that?) its running a core i5 6200u on a 250 gb ssd windows 10 64 bit with an nvidia 940mx gpu with 2gb of vram and 8 gb of memory. There is an extra ram slot so it supports up to 16 gb. It has the cd/dvd drive free. Also do they make antenas that have wifi bluetooth nfc miracast all that fancy shite in them? This one just comes with wifi and bluetooth. Do they make 2 wifi adapters in the formfactor of one? (i ask because i run ubuntu on my desktop as a media server and i would like to do that with this laptop instead but still be connected to the intergoogles but if i use the wifi card as a hotspot i either need an ethernet cord for internet or i just dont get any. Give me suggestions for upgrades. I plan on dual booting ubuntu as well as 2 versions of Windows 10. On for play and one for college since i will be there in a month. Thank you for help. Have a good summer!!

 

[Ralston18]

As stated there is no answer to your question.

What you need to decide is what is the most important requirement for you.

Since you are going off to college, I would suggest that that requirment be something that will be academically meaningful.

RAM is likely to be the best option as that will help with performance.

And on a campus there will be lots of competition for bandwidth - wired and wireless. Favor wired for both speed and security.

Leave the new laptop as is other than perhaps adding memory. Once you get to college you may need to make other changes at the expense of undoing something else you have done in the meantime.

Have a specific requirement before doing anything. Wait and see.