W500 with SSD, the black rubbers on sides doesn't fit anymore!

Hello,
i recently bought samsung 64GB ssd for my W500 along with the serial hard drive bay adapter II , the plan is to get my 160GB disk into the bay and 64GB internal as main disk

when i took out the 160GB the tray had two rubbers on each side that holds the disk into inside its place in the laptop so it doesn't shake seems to be.

the problem is it seems the samsung ssd is a 'bit' thinker than the 160GB disk and when i put the rubbers it jam and doesn't fit inside, without the rubbers it goes fine but it moves a little to both sides.

how come ? shall i remove the cover from the samsubg ssd it will make it more thinner or shall i keep it without the rubbers ?

 

If it is the SSD you don't really need the rubber unless it is rattling and annoying you. In which case you could just mod it yourself.

 

it does fit. just push the ssd into the rubbers real tight and make sure the corners do not stick out

 

the problem is its thinker so it won't fit inside the laptop not the rubbers doesn't fit on the tray of the disk

so it jams in the middle of putting it inside!

 

ok, first off you used "thinker" once in each post, I will assume you meant thicker, if I understand you correctly
you mean not thicker but wider, right?
the HDD with the screw-on cage is not thicker than my samsung SSD, but..
okay two things you can do:
- you can, like you were asking in another thread, put it in the ultrabay, but that is no good if you ever plan to use the dvd drive. I have a ssd in the internal bay and a hdd in the ultrabay now, but the HDD is for data, idles at very low wattage (good for long battery life when not accessing it), and I can yank it out and use the optical drive
- you can try the SSD without the screw-on cage. here's how
* the rubbers will be loose, so I would cut two 1" pieces of rubber band and tape them to the UNDERSIDE of the drive, close to the side without the connectors, to fill the gap
* you MUST attach a tape (loop from top to bottom with tab sticking out, just like in the cage), otherwise it will be difficult to pull the ssd back out

with the second option of not using the cage, once you have it snug, you can forget about it, no problem.

but I am still saying I have my samsung with the cage inside the internal bay in my T400

 

I have a 2.5" Samsung SSD, and I can put it in the rubber rails and slide it in just fine in my X61t. Are you sure you're doing it correctly?

 

@receph sorry yeah i meant thicker dunno why mt fingers goes to thinker

its not wide its thick so it fits fine in the tray and i can screw it in with no issues

when i put the rubbers on each side in the middle its thicker

@zephir
yes im doing it correctly, removed the 160gb disk placed the 64ssd into the tray and with rubbers it doesn't fit, does ur x61 has the new rubbers ? because my old Ts didn't have them

 

think from bottom to top as attached