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    Quick question about replacing CD with SSD.

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by shinakuma9, Apr 28, 2012.

  1. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

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    So I'm running on the ASUS in my sig. My hard drive seems to be at the end of the road, so I wanna know if I can replace my CD drive with a SSD? If so, how hard is it to remove the cd drive and is there an instruction manual? Also If I go buy the SSD, how can it be securely in place? Is there a bracket?
     
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    LegendaryKA8 Nutty ThinkPad Guy

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    I'm not sure that the caddy listed above will work. This is the one I'm using:

    2nd HDD Caddy ASUS G51, G71, G73, G74, K43, K52, K53, K70, K73 [OBHD-SATA12-SATA-BU] - $44.75 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

    All you have to do with that one is fit the bezel from your G51's optical drive and replace it. If your HDD is going out, I would recommend putting your SSD in the primary slot and using another HDD for your secondary; that caddy will fit the larger 1TB notebook HDDs. I'm currently running an Intel X25M 160GB SSD for my OS drive, and two 640GB drives for my data and games in my G73 and it's been working flawlessly for nearly a year.
     
    LegendaryKA8, Apr 29, 2012
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