well...if your laptop has a removable optical drive, you may want to look into it see if you can put a 2nd hdd there instead. That's what I did to mine, ssd for the os and apps, then the old 320gb hdd in the optical drive slot for storage.
its hp, so no removable anything
1 hdd space that has 6 "scruws", and 1 not removable dvd-burner