I would love to replace the hard drive with a larger one and get a separate SSD in mSATA format so I can have faster boot time and a more responsive system and also add a 1.5-2TB 2.5" traditional ...

Since the mSATA drive is so small, the result with most of these adapters will fit where the old 2.5 inch hard drive went (with room to spare in some cases). I went with this one.

The 1TB 840 EVO mSATA SSD offers 98,000 random read and 90,000 random write IOPS, as well as sequential read and write speed of 540 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 520 MB/s, enabling complex multi ...

The PiDrive Raspberry Pi solid state disk (SSD) is now over on Kickstarter and available to back with pledges from $29 if you provide your own mSATA drive or $79 complete with 128GB mSATA drive.