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Is it possible to replace the optical drive in my laptop and use the caddy enclosure of the dvd drive for my new SSD? Or am I forced to buy a caddy rather than using the one that currently holds my optical drive? The reason for this is to of course not have to buy a caddy enclosure for my SSD whereas I can use my existing one I have that encloses my optical drive. Is this possible?

 

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Depends on the laptop,which one do you have?

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Is it possible to replace the optical drive in my laptop and use the caddy enclosure of the dvd drive for my new SSD? Or am I forced to buy a caddy rather than using the one that currently holds my optical drive? The reason for this is to of course not have to buy a caddy enclosure for my SSD whereas I can use my existing one I have that encloses my optical drive. Is this possible?

Usually the Optical drives have a different connection to the standard SATA, so I'm gonna say no.

SSD is a replacement for your HDD, just take that out and use it externally with the SSD in the HDD bay - straight swap that way.

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Usually the Optical drives have a different connection to the standard SATA, so I'm gonna say no.

SSD is a replacement for your HDD, just take that out and use it externally with the SSD in the HDD bay - straight swap that way.

No, opticals use either pata or sata. It will work if you can find a caddy for it. My macbook pro has that ability.

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Usually the Optical drives have a different connection to the standard SATA, so I'm gonna say no.

 

 

All you need is a caddy, it uses the same connectors, either sata or psata.

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If you do not mind a whole in your laptop you can use any caddie you want. I had a macbook pro caddie on my old samsung laptop. 

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Wow that question is very generic.

 

The CD/DVD drive is dying my friend. Might as well just change it for something they will truly use.

 

As the others said, find a caddy. 

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Wow that question is very generic.

How so?

 

Just find a compatible hdd caddy.

If you can get a cheap one that's for your laptop model that sits flush with the drive slot, great.

If not, just get a universal one. Make sure to check if you have a slim or normal optical drive.

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I did it with my laptop. Like everyone else said, just get a caddy for cheap on eBay. You should be able to take the cover off the optical drive and attach it to the caddy so it looks like an optical drive instead of having a hole there.

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OK thanks for all the great replies. 

 

For those who ask my laptop is a ASUS K55n 15.6 inch notebook.

AMD A8-4500m processor, 8GB RAM and Radeon 7640g graphics for anyone who wants to know.

 

I was already planning on buying a caddy for the SSD but I was just curious if I could once remove the DVD drive, dissemble it from its caddy and put the SSD inside of the caddy that enclosed the optical drive rather than buying a separate caddy online. I was just wondering if this was possible.

 

If not, I will defiantly look up for a caddy online.

 

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The CD/DVD drive is dying my friend. Might as well just change it for something they will truly use.

 

As the others said, find a caddy. 

yea but he didn't say what laptop he had or anything.

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yea but he didn't say what laptop he had or anything.

 

Well I assume he's finding it himself or already found it as he didn't reply :l

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