Hardware upgrade for Laptop Gateway M-6806m

I'm doing a hardware upgrade to this  old  laptop by upgrading the RAM from 2G to 4G, removing the DVD and adding a caddy to store the original hard drive were the DVD was and a new SDD to install the OS instead of the original HDD.

The caddy I gouth is a PATA IDE to SATA, 12.7mm to connect the original HDD, which you can see over the DVD and the SSD already connected and protected by that metal "cage" to the left.

Now, you can see the original RAM installed and the new 4G protected with the envelops they were sent by the provider:

And now, these are the brand new 4G RAM installed:

 Now, this is how it looks the caddy taking the place and simulating being the DVD (at the bottom):

The old BIOS detects the new RAM installed:

But I had a problem with the BIOS to put the SSD as the primary boot device and the HDD as secondary,  somehow the HDD went to the "bottom" of the options and it was complicate to put it below the SSD.

When I finally got the drives in the boot order as I wanted, there were issues with the RAM while I was doing tests, so I had to use memtest to confirm one of them was defective, I reached the provider who confirmed the memtest results I ran and send the replacement a few days later.

Finally with the new hardware, this is how it looks running:

The laptop came with Windows XP and now it is running Linux Mint, not sure if it will remain installed, maybe I'll reinstall it with Debian, not sure yet but I'm looking to get a graphical environment that does not consume too much resourcers and don't require too much time doing settings.

 

A couple of links I used to research to find the correct caddy:

http://www.2ndhddcaddy.co.uk/gateway-m-6806m-2nd-hdd-hard-drive-caddy.html

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/432038/Gateway-M-6801mt.html?page=123#manual