Universal SATA Hard Drive Caddy Adapter Tray Enclosures for DELL HP Lenovo ThinkPad ACER Gateway ASUS Sony Samsung MSI Laptop

This works well to add a 2nd drive

From the little testing I have done this HDD holder is crazy fast when copying files from your main internal drive. It is also well made, and easy enough to set up.What you need to know.For one you will need to remove your laptops optical drive, and remove the back bracket off the back, and the front factory cover/face off of the drive if you want it to blend in and look good.My issues. (No fault of the drive holder.)I was using an old drive I had installed ubuntu onto. Why was that an issue? Well Windows doesn't talk with ubuntu, so at fires it looked like the HDD caddy didn't work, but quickly figuring out what happened I formatted the drive and boom it worked perfectly.What I am running in the drive holder.I am running an old Samsung drive from a old laptop. It is a HDD with a 750GB capacity. My system is a 2018 HP laptop with a RYZEN3 2200U processor, with a 1TB HDD, and 16GB of ram installed. All that said the drive holder works great I this laptop, and even my back up Lenovo ideapad3 I forget the specs on that laptop though.Wrapping this up I will say this I give the product a 9/10 because it is easy to use and alright to install. I would however recommend having a brand new HDD or SSD just because it would be easier for you, but you can use a old drive no problem if your willing to possibly have to format it. If you need extra storage or want to upgrade to a SSD, and have an extra HDD for more storage I say go ahead and buy it..

DVD players are so retro. Put all those DVDs on a SSD and plug it in your box with this guy.After your done, that 15 year old computer is going to run like a 10 year old computer.It's medium quality construction and you might break your existing face plate trying to swap it, but that's all cosmetic. You're rocking a 15 year old computer that you may or may not have scored from the dumpster. People like us know what really matters... Additional storage.

This is a handy tray that I used on an HP envy-class laptop that I worked on customizing. When a modern laptop sold in the past decade only ships from a Walmart with a DVD R/W optical drive, it might as well get ripped out and replaced. Blu-ray or No Way! So I converted the optical drive bay into a hidden SSD drive bay with little to no problem. Unlike the optical drive, and this is a minor issue only, there is no way to screw this in place as the optical drive had a tab on it that allows the bottom cover to screw into it. I used 2 screws to mount the drive bay to the SSD and they also provided enough pressure to make sure the drive bay doesn’t come unmounted with normal use. I also attached a small strip of duct tape to the bottom of the bay to allow for easy removal if I ever need to change out the drive. The flat plastic cover that ships with the bay to look like a desktop PC optical tray door came off relatively easy with some careful wiggling and I was able to attach by pressing the plastic laptop optical drive bay door with no glue needed so it looks stick on the outside.I had no issue with drive recognition after formatting the drive externally with another computer. This bay seems to fit in the laptop readily due to its shape but always check before buying to make sure you are getting the correct fitting part. This bay is slip and I could only squeeze one 2.5” SSD in it at a time.For the price this works extremely well and I have had zero issues since first install.

Compré este adaptador para reemplazar la unidad de DVD de mi MacBook Pro (modelo 2012) y colocarle un SSD adicional, y la verdad funcionó perfectamente. La instalación fue sencilla, encajó sin problemas y el sistema reconoció el disco desde el primer encendido.Es una excelente opción si quieres mejorar el rendimiento de tu Mac antiguo, ya sea para usar un SSD como disco principal o para tener almacenamiento extra junto al disco original. La estructura se siente sólida, no vibra y mantiene el disco fijo.Lo he estado usando desde hace varias semanas y no he tenido ningún problema. Es una solución muy práctica y económica si quieres aprovechar al máximo tu equipo antes de pensar en cambiarlo.Muy recomendado para quienes quieren extender la vida útil de su MacBook de forma sencilla.

Lo mismo que esperaba, funciono todo para mi macbook pro 2011, instale un disco SSD y ahora tengo dos disco en mi macbook uno con windows y otro con mi sistema Mac OS.

The photos are not of the exact product I recieved. Overall it’s the same adapter, but the one I recieved does not have the side screws or even the cutouts for side screws in it. Meaning you HAVE TO use screws in the bottom. But then there are screws sticking out a couple tenth of a millimeter. Not a lot, but that can make it incompatible with many laptops. I’m using it in a desktop with a slim drive bay. Even then, I had to kind of bend out the mounting bracket of the case so those protruding screws could slide past.