SSD in Optical Bay?

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rosonowski

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So I'm planning on buying this laptop for school:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115857

And I have no use for an optical drive about 95% of the time. I've got a fast network connection almost everywhere I go, and big fat disks the likes of I only imagined when I was burning everything to discs to save room.

Anyhow, this laptop has one of those nice fat disks, but it's slow. I want to put in an SSD in place of the optical drive, so I can have a fast disk to go with the fat disk. Does anyone manufacture an SSD in this form factor, or an adapter that doesn't cost almost as much as the disk itself?

http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=STORHDOPTIBAY

This is close, but a lot more expensive than I'd want to pay for just an adapter.
 
Depends if there are spare SATA plugs flying around, if the DVD drive uses one then it should be fine.

The actual mounting doesn't matter as SSDs don't get hot, and don't vibrate. So you could ducttape it to the case internals and cover the slot and it would be fine, you dont have to mount them properly.
 
yea the m15x has the optical --> HDD converter thing

it's useful for people like us who don't use the CD drive often. I think I used mine to install windows then office, then never used it again since everything else like drivers are just online or on USB drives
 
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