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CD drive to SSD conversion

maino217
By maino217
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I have a reasonably cheap laptop, a HP with an AMD A10 4600 in it. However it is very slow to boot and I assume its down to the 1TB HDD that was included with it. Therefore I am looking to remove the CD drive and replace it with a SSD. 

 

Is the CD drive housing always the same size, meaning that any SSD caddy will fit and how hard is it to transfer everything across to the new SSD?

 

Thanks in advance!  :D

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Shouldn't be too hard to do. I would make sure you haev an extra sata port on your board before you do it though. As far as it fitting SSD's are relatively small and I don't see why it wouldn't fit.

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read that wrong lmfao

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I have a reasonably cheap laptop, a HP with an AMD A10 4600 in it. However it is very slow to boot and I assume its down to the 1TB HDD that was included with it. Therefore I am looking to remove the CD drive and replace it with a SSD. 

 

Is the CD drive housing always the same size, meaning that any SSD caddy will fit and how hard is it to transfer everything across to the new SSD?

 

Thanks in advance!  :D

i would put your hdd in the cd slot because the cd slot usually has a nerfed sata bus so put the sata drive in the originall hdd's slot

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You can't put an ssd in a laptop cd drive house and connect it. 

 

I've seen SSD Caddys that are shaped like the CD drive housing but have room for an SSD rather than a disk drive on it. 

 

i would put your hdd in the cd slot because the cd slot usually has a nerfed sata bus so put the sata drive in the originall hdd's slot

Thats a good tip thanks! 

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I thought that this is a tutorial on how to transform your CD drive into an SSD, dreams broken, ;(

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