can i swap a cd drive for an ssd

[aries757]

my dell lattitude has a 500 gb Hybrid drive, and i have an extra 64 gigabyte i'd like to put a linux or mac distro on it, how would i go about it

[Crunchy Dragon]

Do you want to swap the hybrid drive out, or the optical drive?

[aries757]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Do you want to swap the hybrid drive out, or the optical drive?

optical

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, aries757 said:

optical

Then I would say switch out the drives as normal since they both connect via SATA, and then jerryrig some form of mount to securely hold the SSD in place.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Then I would say switch out the drives as normal since they both connect via SATA, and then jerryrig some form of mount to securely hold the SSD in place.

velcro always works for ssd,s

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

velcro always works for ssd,s

I was gonna say duct tape, but velcro works too.

[danejesse1]

10 minutes ago, aries757 said:

optical

IIRC laptop optical drives use a different SATA connector than regular hard drives, so you would need an adapter to use the SSD. Something like this would work. I'd take out the optical drive and see if the connector looks too small for the ssd. Here's a comparison between the two.

[ZcanKal]

29 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

to securely hold the SSD in place.

Or just have it hang if you're the Lord of Jank.

[m9x3mos]

There are adapters on Amazon for pretty cheap. For work I have a Lenovo 440p that I did just that. Bought a Optical to Hard Drive converter from Amazon and droped in a SSD in its place for extra storage. Worked perfectly. Now I run the SSD for the OS making it much faster and the 1tb hard drive that came with it is just bulk storage now.