DIY: Adding SSD or HDD storage using an optical bay caddy

[ltw1977]

I hope I am reading this wrong, but you are not really trying to insert it while the system is running?!

It also might be useful to read the first post in this thread - it lists some quirks and solutions.

I did shut down the laptop and swapped over ... but the laptop won't power up.
Then I removed the caddy ... and I am able to boot up.

[soguxu]

I believe I had this one before.
Works fine, built quality was a little disappointing though.
Replaced it later with a 'fenvi' model - with the exchangable frontplate as a bonus.

Well, yes the build quality wasn't perfect but it held together and I'm not ever going to see it again anyways
I don't know what you mean by exchangable frontplate though. I removed my DVD-RW's faceplate and put it on this cheap caddy with no issues.

[ltw1977]

I did shut down the laptop and swapped over ... but the laptop won't power up.
Then I removed the caddy ... and I am able to boot up.

could this be something to do with slave/master thingy?

What can I do to resolve this ... without the need to solder wire?

Cheers

[raserdk]

I did shut down the laptop and swapped over ... but the laptop won't power up.
Then I removed the caddy ... and I am able to boot up.

i have the same problem, well mine did short out the gfx, it is like its shorting something inside the laptop, when i plugged in mine, ofcourse without any power source connected. I could not turn on my laptop, no respond, no lights no nothing, then i took out the caddy and my laptop was broken, it had a white screen with a black bar down the middle. so apperently it broke my laptop, but i got it to work again, i threw the gfx in the oven 180 degrees 10 minutes and now it works again, but, the caddy short something out, tried in another laptop and again no power no lights no respond...

[trvelbug]

Hi
I am new here and I am interested to make use of my dvd slot for 2nd hdd.

Info ...
1. I have OCZ Vertex 60gb 2.5" SSD - I have installed Win 7 Pro 32 bit
2. I have 4 gb ram but can utilise 3gb only.
3. DVD model: Mata UJ-845-C SLOT type
4. Laptop: Acer Aspire 5560 Core 2 Duo
5. I have another Samsung hdd 640gb

I have got this caddy from ebay 12.7mm SATA 2nd HDD caddy for ACER BENQ HP DELL ASUS | eBay

But when I put in the HDD and slot into my laptop - my laptop automatically shut down.

Any advice? Or I am better off getting this OBHHD Caddy to replace Slot-Loading Optical,12.7,SATA-PATA [OBHD-SATA12-NF] - $44.75 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

Appreciate any assistance.

Cheers
Chris

"1x universal IDE Optical Bay Hard Drive Adapter/caddy"

you got an sata-ide caddy. what you probably need is sata-sata. read the descriptions of ebay caddies v carefully as they can be misleading at times.

edit you dont need the modeous caddy per se, but be sure to get the right caddy for your dvd slot. mine takes sata

[ltw1977]

"1x universal IDE Optical Bay Hard Drive Adapter/caddy"

you got an sata-ide caddy. what you probably need is sata-sata. read the descriptions of ebay caddies v carefully as they can be misleading at times.

edit you dont need the modeous caddy per se, but be sure to get the right caddy for your dvd slot. mine takes sata

Mine does take ide interface as I compared my dvd which I took out and compare the interface - they matched.

not sure what to do next

Cheers

[vorlon]

Anyone knows if ASUS N53SV-XV uses 9.5 or 12.7mm caddy? I haven't bought the computer yet, but I want to be sure I can put a SSD in the optical bay.

[bigtruck]

I got the OBHD-SATA-SATA-B from NewmodeUS, and have a Kingston SSDnow 100v. I successfully got the SSD installed and reimaged and that works great, but I can't seem to get the caddy to fit in the laptop. From inspection, it appears to have the exact same dimensions as the optical bay I pulled out, and yet, it won't slide in the last two inches or so. Any ideas on what might be the problem and how I could fix it? This is in an HP Pavillion dm4t laptop.

[nbruser]

Guide moved HERE

[User Retired 2]

I read about the delay at boot with newmodeus caddy, tried both master and slave jumpers without any luck.. (same ~ 18s delay at boot). I'm on HP Compaq 8710p.

Any idea why this could be happening?

Great investigative work. +rep.

2510P owner's have experienced a ~30s bios boot delay with the Sunplus equipped newmodeus caddy if set to master. I just reverted to using an ebay caddy with the Marvell bridge chip. It boots up as master by default but there's info here on how to pinmod it to slave.