Comments on: Best of both worlds: putting an SSD in your optical bay http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/ The Super User Community Blog Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Ayush http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-1801076 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:50:36 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-1801076 I have dell alienware 17 plss guide me about its optical drive

]]> By: Jon http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-25450 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:19:49 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-25450 @nhinkle: I’m planning to buy a laptop from xoticpc and one of the customization options is to replace the disk drive with a hard drive. Since I already have an ssd on the ssd drive (for the OS) and an hd on the hd drive (for media files) I just want another hd for storage (which I won’t always access). What are the effects of adding another hard drive on the optical bay? Will my laptop run hotter? Will my battery life shorten? Will the hd be more susceptible to corruption? Hope you can help me out. Thanks 🙂

]]> By: nhinkle http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-13405 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:04:05 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-13405 Hi there,

Generally speaking, it’s almost always better to put the SSD in the primary slot (where the HDD originally was). There are a variety of reasons why the caddies tend not to work quite as well with SSDs.

]]> By: Cristian Rusu http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-13364 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:04:20 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-13364 Hello

I just got a caddy and I tried with new SSD int optical bay, but it seems to jam a lot my laptop and it’s never visible, it’s like very slow or something…

Should I just switch HDD and SSD and never question why SSD is not working on the caddy?

Thanks

]]> By: Mr Space http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-166 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:45:07 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-166 Can you replace a 12mm drive with a 9.5mm? There might be a gap, but could you pad it somehow? I’m seeing more 9.5mm on sale now than 12mm and I need to place my dead 12mm.

Thanks.

]]> By: KronoS http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-164 Wed, 04 May 2011 17:27:42 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-164 Wow you actually used a cd/dvd burner instead of a flash drive? ;P

]]> By: przemoc http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-163 Wed, 04 May 2011 16:55:29 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-163 Sorry for another comment, but forgot to tell something in previous one.

As a ThinkPad user (not atm honestly, because of failed NVS140m, which can be recovered only for a limited time [like one month] via baking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JtokNj_Ho [not my vid]) I have to say that I love UltraBay.

I have standard CD/DVD burner (now covered by dust), long time ago replaced by UltraBay IDE adapter and later SATA adapter. I remember one event from a few years ago when at uni friend asked me to burn something. I didn’t have my burner back then in UltraBay, but schoolmate sitting next to me had TP too w/ his burner in place. He took it off and lent it, so I could fulfill my friend’s request immediately. This seamless operation (w/o turning off any computer) is simple proof of UB awesomeness.

]]> By: przemoc http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-162 Wed, 04 May 2011 16:32:43 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-162 Not mentioning recent Jeff’s post (2 days old) is just a sin here. 🙂

The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

]]> By: ivoflipse http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/04/best-of-both-worlds-putting-an-ssd-in-your-optical-bay/#comment-161 Wed, 04 May 2011 08:05:00 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2379#comment-161 This almost makes me want to replace my optical drive in my laptop, so I can have 2 SSD’s!

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