Question / Help Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro Upgrade

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JonathanFernas

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I own an Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM and a 320 GB HDD. I am thinking of upgrading it to 16 GB RAM and an SSD. The end is to give new life to it and improve its performance reasonably. I have some questions:
  • Crucial RAM and Crucial MX500 SSD. Are these good options?
  • Removing the optical drive (I don't use it, and due to a fall disk inlet is bend). I am considering two options: put the old HDD or put a new SSD (and use the old HDD as an external hard drive for backups).
  • Is it a good idea to use the new SSD on the optical drive, if included, to do a raid together with the main SSD?
  • What is a good idea for the capacity of the SSD in your opinion?
  • I actually have two partitions: one with OS X Snow Leopard (never updated) and one with Windows 7 (Boot Camp). I would like the idea to perform a fresh installation of both operating systems (I can save the files I would like to keep). Something I should know related to OS X fresh installation? Is it possible? Do I need some key or user/password I probably don't remember now? With is the version of OS X should I install (¿High Sierra?)?
I know that I am asking for a lot of information but I never opened the laptop and I want to be sure of all in order to open it just one time. I would appreciate any tips you could give me.
Thank you all in advance for your help.
 
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