*HP HDX 9000 DRAGON Owners Lounge, Part 2*

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Anyone have any experience with/knowledge regarding this OPTICAL TO HD CADDY?

Looks like a way to get 12.5s into the beast.

Most folks go with the ones made by NewModeUS : Optical Bay HDD : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

Specifically these HDDs: HP Hard Drive Caddys

As for fitting a 12.5mm HDD, you'd have to contact NewModeUS.

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Is this the non-overkill stable layman maximum for the Dragon?:

Each CPU is different with different tolerances to overclock. Run Wprime 1024 test and Intel Burn Test to determine. If it bluescreens during either test, then it is too high.

[User Retired 2]

Most folks go with the ones made by NewModeUS : Optical Bay HDD : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

There's also the US$19-delivered 12.7mm ebay "Fenvi" sata-to-pata caddy. Has a swappable faceplate as shown here. No reason why a 12.5mm HDD wouldn't fit in one of those.

[2.0™]

There's also the US$19-delivered 12.7mm ebay "Fenvi" sata-to-pata caddy. Has a swappable faceplate as shown here. No reason why a 12.5mm HDD wouldn't fit in one of those.

That's nice and nice price too! Good find.

I figure with the open top, as long as there is at least 1 mm clearance in the HDX, it should be good to go for a 12.5 mm HDD. The casing itself is 12.5-12.65mm in total thickness as most optical drives are.

[Digitalwindow]

Each CPU is different with different tolerances to overclock. Run Wprime 1024 test and Intel Burn Test to determine. If it bluescreens during either test, then it is too high.

if someone bona-fide's 444 going on RAM, I may just put my T9500 back in!

[DRAGONe]

There's also the US$19-delivered 12.7mm ebay "Fenvi" sata-to-pata caddy. Has a swappable faceplate as shown here. No reason why a 12.5mm HDD wouldn't fit in one of those.

Absolute gold!

[Digitalwindow]

There's also the US$19-delivered 12.7mm ebay "Fenvi" sata-to-pata caddy. Has a swappable faceplate as shown here. No reason why a 12.5mm HDD wouldn't fit in one of those.

This makes me wish HP made the optical drive top-loading since there's so much face space available. Either way, time to test a three-way SSD!

[User Retired 2]

This makes me wish HP made the optical drive top-loading since there's so much face space available. Either way, time to test a three-way SSD!

The caddy that was linked is a sata-to-pata. I believe you have a PATA optical drive, as was the trend with ICH8M-based systems.

A third SSD could be used in place of the optical drive, but consider the performance limitations across a UDMA5 PATA interface: you'd lose sata's NCQ multithreaded reads/writes, reads would max at 100MB/s and writes at 88.9MB/s and the sata-to-pata bridge would add a 0.8-1W power consumption overhead.

Can see example performance of sata SSDs across a sata-to-pata bridge here.

[DRAGONe]

... SSD!

See below.

I believe you have a PATA optical drive, ...

You are correct sir.

A third SSD could be used ... but consider the performance limitations ...

I was thinkin' more in terms of using the newer, larger (capacity and size) mechanicals for inconspicuous copious internal storage.

[Pinballman]

Hey Folks!

I'm in need of advice with my keyboard. First thing is some play has developed on the bottom left of the keyboard. When a key is pressed you can see the keyboard flex. Not a big deal, but it makes the keyboard feel really "klunky". Is it possible for the keyboard to warp?

Second thing is, for example if I need to scroll up or down a document, I would push one of the arrow keys and when I release it it continues to scroll like the key is still being pushed for a couple of seconds. Happens with other keys as well. It doesn't happen all the time, and when it does happen restarting the computer temporarily corrects it.

Not major problems, but it's starting to get on my nerves. Do I need to ask Santa for a new keyboard?