Silly question about hard drive in ODD slot

Hey! This is probably something I should have dealt with a while ago, but I'm just getting around to it.

I have an ssd in the main bay for my sager 9150, and a 500gb traditional hard drive in the odd. The issue is that the 500gb drive is a lot smaller than the ODD and will fall out if I move to put my laptop in my backpack. Now there may have been some support that came with my laptop to keep it in place but it is long gone. Does anyone know a good solution I could order off amazon or throw together at home to secure the hard drive in place?

 

You are supposed to get a caddy to mount the drive into then put that caddy into the optical bay. They are a universal size 12.7mm, just make sure its a SATA connection.

 

Yes, without a caddy as you say it will fall out and you may snap your connector. You can get universal ones that fit the optical drive front so it fits flush.

 

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you don't really have the optical bay completely exposed, do you? here (make sure you get one that's 12.7mm as hutsady mentioned). and i'd remove that drive until you get a caddy before the connector gets damaged. you can take the bezel/faceplate off of your optical drive and put it on the caddy so that it sits flush with the chassis/looks clean. this tutorial video is about five minutes too long but gives you a general idea.

 

Let me provide a little more clarification: the hard drive is not completely exposed, it's enclosed in a black plastic slot that slides into the ODD bay. The hard drive may be too small, though. I moved the 750gb hard drive that came with the computer to the odd and installed window 7 on an ssd I bought separately, which went into the SATA-3 drive.

I have doubts that the 750gb hard drive is 12.7mm. Typing in "Seagate Momentus 750gb" into google I get this
Newegg.com - Seagate Momentus ST9750420AS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive
which looks identical to mine, and is 9mm. So I guess my next question is what should I do to secure a 9mm drive in place for a caddy meant to accomodate a 12.7mm drive?

 

did you screw it in? there is one screw that holds the caddy to the chasis

 

What I am noticing would be useful would be four screws to screw the hard drive into the caddy. Does anyone know what size they are?

 

no there is a screw to hold the caddy to the machine. its just 1 screw. if i remember correctly, you have to take off the back cover to access that hole for the screw

 

where do you see anything about 9mm? just buy the 12.7mm caddy. we promise it works.

do you see the four screws in the little plastic baggy pictured next to the caddy in the link i provided you with? those secure the drive to the caddy. this video here shows you the screw silverfern is referring to at 3:00 and at 3:20. unfortunately there's no corresponding tab on any of the universal caddies i can find, but if it's the right size it should stay put just fine.

 

IIRC, the screws to hold the HDD to the optical bay caddy are taped inside the caddy itself. Provided you ordered the optical drive caddy from Sager when you configured your laptop.

 

they'll come with just about any and all caddies ordered from pretty much anywhere. securing the drive to the caddy is somewhat of a standard practice.

 

Yeah I believe so, but I've never bought a caddy alone so couldn't say that for sure

Also I don't know if the OP's caddy came with the laptop or not. If that's the case then it means Sager or his reseller may forgot to include the screws in the first place.

 

I'm not sure if they came with them or not, but it looks like at this point I'll need some replacements. Anyone know what size they should be?

 

here. if you don't have any lying around, here (but they'll come with the caddy when you decide to get the right one). if that whole article peaks your interest and you don't have any of the three, here. you're funny.

 

this thread is better than a comedy show

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I am truly lost too, but the only screws I ever had with a caddy were to attach the mounting bracket at the back.

 

unintentional comedy is always better than the opposite.

do you need more links?