Self Upgrading to Blu-Ray on Smart-Bay

Alright now I've done some research and I need your input to see if I should go ahead with this or not. I just ordered an M15x with the 8x optical drive. I couldn't justify spending the 300 to get bluray or 350 to burn blu-ray. However, I have come up with a solution (maybe someone else has done this as well). I am considering purchasing a $120.00 blu-ray reader NEW off of ebay. SATA connections of course. Removing my 8x optical drive from my Smart Bay housing. Then installing the Blu-Ray drive. Is there any special consideration as far as software goes? Some of these drives come with software and some do not....should I care about this? If your responses lead me to believe that this will work I will go ahead and "buy it now" on ebay, then post a tutorial, with pictures, on how I accomplished it and IF it worked. Thanks again,
Alex

 

Here is a link to the drive I am considering.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-HP-dv5-dv7-SATA-Blu-Ray-Drive-BC-5500S-486525-001_W0QQitemZ120394406989QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item120394406989&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A15|39%3A1|240%3A1318

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I was planning on doing this upgrade myself. I think it should work fine. Please keep us updated on how it goes. God Bless

 

http://4help.alienware.com/cgi-bin/...F90ZXh0PW0xNXggb3B0aWNhbA**&p_li=&p_topview=1

have fun.

 

thanks for that whizzo!

 

sweet nice to know its possible as I may do this at some point (maybe)

 

Is it possible to manually upgrade the DVD-RW smart bay drive to a slot load blu-ray drive? If so, could anyone please direct me to instructions as well as which blu-ray model # I would get?

Also, any internal blu-ray drive will work with the smart bay as long as it's SATA?

Thank you!