Adding a third hard drive

Anyone tried this?

YouTube - Replace a laptop's CD/DVD optical drive with a Hard Drive

I'm thinking that an internal bluray/dvd player is such a waste of useful sata bandwidth. This might be an interesting mod....

The optical drive would then go into this enclosure:

Amazon.com: Black USB 2.0 Slim External Enclosure Case for Laptop Notebook DVD / CD Burner Drive (Drive NOT included): Electronics


Just sharing an idea.... I will probably do this... still just researching. My reason for doing this is VM disk partitioning.... raid would have been nice, but this works just as well.

 

Some online stores offer this solution when you buy the machine (G73) from them so I guess there are a few out there who has a third harddrive installed.

 

Add a 2nd HDD using the CD/DVD Optical Drive Bay : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

Stuff like that. Search ebay for "dvd hard drive caddy".

 

I've done it. I bought the Asus G73 kit from NewmodeUS. I removed the front from the DVD player and slapped it on the harddrive caddy so the computer looks the same. It's very easy and took 15 minutes. Anyone know where to find a flat front for the DVD so i can put in an enclosure like this one?

 

Im going to do this.

Whats most important about the dvd caddy is it takes 12.5 mm hds.

pretty soon there will be a 1.5 tb 12.5 mm hd available from wd

ya totally just pull the dvd or in your case blue ray player out when you need it.

The same company makes an enclosure for it but its not really necessary just keep it in a plastic bag and then pull out the screws and put it in when you need it.

 

Nice! Searched but could not find any info on WD 1.5TB. Link?

Thanks

 

I saw the news here on this site.
Possibly on a site that deals just with hd storage though.
But I would guess western digitals site will have it in news. Theyve announced the availability of a 1.5 tb hdd but no idea when it will reach market.

seagate has a 1.5 tb 2.5 inch external drive for sale right now. I think inside their case is the new wd 1.5 tb hdd thats only an assumption I havent heard any reviewer open the case.


newegg has the externals for sale.

 

Very interesting.... 500gb density soon.

Seagate Breaks the Areal Density Limit With 1 TB 2 Platter 2.5″ Drive – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Three of these in software raid-5 could be interesting for server geeks. Or, stripe two OCZ Vertex 2's + 1 gigantic 3 platter mechanical drive for "backups".

 

well wait,

thats the same density as the 1.5 tb drive only its 9.5 mm

1 tb 9.5 mm drive will reach the market after the 1.5 tb 12.5 mm drive thats how it usually goes.

same technology though, a 12.5 mm 500 gb 3 platter drive is the same thing.

But you wont need the third hd caddy for that seagate one.