Optical to HDD Caddy M17x R3

Anyone know a company that sells one? I was thinking of removing my optical drive and swapping in another HD

 

10 char bump.

 

OBHHD Caddy to replace Slot-Loading Optical,12.7,SATA-SATA [OBHD-SATA12-SATA-NF] - $44.75 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

I took that one off the M15x section of NBR, if you search in there there should be a post about it. But I believe this one should fit. This one is meant to house a 1tb but there are smaller ones you can get that will fit nicely. I plan on purchasing this one for my R2 and getting a ton more of extra storage

 

I just needed to verify. Thanks

I found one on eBay for $20 will confirm if it works OK.

 

Nice let us know how it works. If it fits properly I'll more than likely buy it lol

 

See Sig for details ( 1 TB Drive)

 

I didn't order that one because it specifically said 9.5mm drives

 

Thanks for the post DR650SE I just ordered the same exact one and then I took a look at your sig. Love the pics and I can't wait for some extra storage.

 

Thanks. I love having an ssds raid 0 setup plus a TB of storage but Im thinking of splitting the raid setup. Thinking one ssds for os/apps, one ssds for games and keeping the TB for docs, music, movies ect. Made the blu-ray an external because i don't use it too often and the notebook is mostly on my desk, but i still have the option of using it.

 

Just got the caddy in I ordered, put a 750GB HD in there.

It is a bit harder to open than I expected. The Screen DOES have to be removed....It's all screws and cables though.

Really super easy as long as you keep track of the screws, there's only like 3 or 4 different sized ones anyway

EDIT:

FWIW this is the one I bought, I can confirm it works, I think the seller does have a cheaper one but I knew this one for sure didn't have a bezel which is why I got it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110673683961&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT


EDIT 2: Now, how about a 2.5" Optical Bay to put my bluray drive in?

EDIT

 

See Sig for details. (1TB link). I think the drive comes with both a slot load bezel and tray load Bezel. When i got it i didn't notice the slot bezel so i ordered one else where

 

Congrats on the new caddy, glad it worked out. It sucks you had to take the screen off, in my R2 I just had to remove some of the inner workings. Works like a charm though love having 1.6tb of space to fool around with

 

I repped that post...

You pretty much took all the work out of doing this. Wish I would have found it sooner.

EDIT:

This is an LG Bluray drive, hopefully they have a bezel for it

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Nope, they don't and they are OOS on that one too


Disregard edits. None of them worked.

 

I think the bezel should be universal. Could be wrong. Worked for my blu-ray burner that came with my R2.

EDIT: Maybe this will work? External Enclosure

 

Outta curiosity, folks, waddya use all that space for? I still got 80gb left out of the 278gb this 320gb stock hdd offers me. Personally I have about 40albums on here, and about 3 800mb movies on here, along with the games (pcsx2, dolphin, sc2, bfbc2, crysis, blackops, the trial WoW and EVE). I see myself deleting those albums and movies soon, too. 320 is soooooo much space imo.

 

I own over 315 games on steam, I like to keep most of the stuff installed.

 

I also have a huge steam library, about 218 games and I would like them all installed I know I can uninstall and reinstall but I would much rather have them all at my disposal lol. Call me crazy but that doesnt even account for my nonsteam games. I have 50gbs of my SSD left, 114gb of my 1tb, and about 80gb on my 640gb in my optical drive bay. Definatly will purchase another 1tb when I get the money lol

 

Dang, you guyz are crazy lolz. So steam games. If you reformat, you have to re-dl them basically??

 

If you don't save the folder yea...Where else would they be stored, in magical storage? Lol.

 

Ah, that's what the invention of cloud gaming was for... Now I get it, lolz.