2 HDD's in 5670

i bought a 7200 rpm drive to replace the old slower one in the laptop but there is only enough room (without modification) to install the new one. i was thinking about getting an external enclosure to house the old one but then the idea came to possibly move some stuff inside and fit the old one back in. my question is can it be done? has anyone done it? and would i just need to buy some splitter cables or would this involve soldering to the MOBO? also how much more power would it drain? not that the last one really matters i have this thing so overclocked and tweaked for gaming that i get just over an hour before its dead.

thanks in advance

 

I would be much, much easier to just get an external enclosure.

 

I've got a laptop USB encloser that is powered only by USB with a 60gig hdd in it. Runs great

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i know its not the easy way but i just want to know if it can be done and if anyone has done it

 

Not easy by any means and not possible either to my knowledge. The laptop only comes built in with 1 SATA port not 2 and not more. You are just asking it to do something that it is not built for.

--ssx--

 

how would you get enough physical room in there?

if you take out the DVD-R drive you can probably do it.

but no, i have not done it, and it's undoubtedly major surgery that i would not personally attempt. i think it's a fascinating idea though...