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do they make hard drives to go in the cdrom slot?

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hulkhelton

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do they make any hard drives that are made to go into the optical drive slot of my laptop, without buying a caddy?

obviously i would want it to fit flush...
 
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Depends on what type of machine. A desktop with full 5.25-in optical bays can also accept HDDs in the same bay. Laptops require an adapter or caddy. The original optical in a laptop is mounted in a caddy or adapter. Thinkpads equipped with Ultrabay can use a directly swappable adapter and optical drive is directly replaced by a HDD or second battery using the adapter. Sample:

ultrabay1.jpg
 
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corkyg said:
Depends on what type of machine. A desktop with full 5.25-in optical bays can also accept HDDs in the same bay. Laptops require an adapter or caddy. The original optical in a laptop is mounted in a caddy or adapter. Thinkpads equipped with Ultrabay can use a directly swappable adapter and optical drive is directly replaced by a HDD or second battery using the adapter. Sample:

ultrabay1.jpg
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hulkhelton said:
the damn caddys are like $40 extra...
guess ill stick to what ive got.
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I bought one of those 2nd HD caddys for my Lenovo Thinkpad T6x machines yesterday off ebay, the cheapest one they had, $11.79 shipped, from Kowloon, Hong Kong. Seller is rexchg. I looked over the listing very carefully. The seller and the item are obviously entirely legit. The swap should be a snap, the optical drives pop right out.
 
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tcsenter said:
You could go with cheap brackets/rails instead of a full removable drive rack/enclosure:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817997015

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816215156

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811993004

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817994103


There are cheaper removable drive racks/enclosures than $40 but the very cheapest ones are flimsy junk. The decent ones start around $15.00 ~ $20.00.
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i dont see how any of them help me replace my optical drive in my laptop with an ssd...
 
my original post said laptop, then i made an edit the night i posted and accidentally edited it out, then after i read the post with all the desktop parts i realized and edited it back.
i wasnt trying to be a smart ass. also i would have to be a dumbass to ask about a way to put a hard drive in a 5.25" bay on a desktop.

all the laptop ones i looked at looked be model specific, but arent all laptop optical slots the same?
 
"all the laptop ones i looked at looked be model specific, but arent all laptop optical slots the same? "

No. The actual drives can be common, but laptops are very proprietary when it comes to adapters and caddies.
 
when my acer drive went bad i just went to microcenter and bought a sony optiarc laptop drive and took the little adapter off the old one and put it on the new one and slid it right in, same with my hp.
i just assumed that what microcenter sold was the standard.
 
so i went ahead and pulled it out and it is actually the same as the old one from my acer, so now i just go buy my ssd and figure out how to mount it inside this one and see how it goes from there.
 
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