Will this setup overheat?

I was thinking of replacing the optical drive on a P150HM for a HDD and just use a USB optical drive. I know that this is a customizable option in many resellers but it just dawn on me that will this add more heat to the whole system? An optical drive probably has no heat since it is hardly ever used (well I think I used mine like 3 times this year), but with a HDD it will definitely generate some sort of heat is this correct? Will the P150HM have issues with the extra heat? Anyone have this setup?

Many thanks!

 

You won't have any problems with it. A rather large number of people run with this setup (due to wanting an SSD as a primary). I have this in my own P150HM and there's no appreciable heat increase.

 

Notebook hard drives are like 5v 1a thats 5 watts MAX.

It wont be possible to heat up other components when the optical drive caddy is very separate and far away. However, its always possible that it will heat up the palmrest or the hard drive itself will get too hot if the caddy is badly designed.
Thankfully I don't think anyone has designed such an awful caddy and usually there is a lot of extra metal there to dissipate heat.

 

I have the SSD in my HDD bay, replaced the Optical drive with a Scorp Black HDD and use an external DVD. No issues at all, including heat.

 

Thanks! Been awhile since I did any research on computers and many years ago I was thinking of getting an external caddy for a 3.5" HDD. I put them together and well was not very impressed, the caddy looks just like something I can piece together from the junk yard and it started to heat up really fast. That was when I realized holymoly I can fry an egg on it. I guess a notebook HDD/SDD today is much better in design.