Universal SATA Hard Drive Caddy Adapter Tray Enclosures for DELL HP Lenovo ThinkPad ACER Gateway ASUS Sony Samsung MSI Laptop

This worked well in a older HP laptop. I can easily swap out the DVD drive for a hard drive with it.

I picked this up to give an old laptop an extra SSD. Normally, I would be opposed to disabling an optical drive. But, I am repurposing this laptop as a server that will sit in a rack until it dies. I tried just removing one screw from the laptop in approximately the position I thought would be holding the optical drive. It actually worked. So, that's an awesome pro tip. The size was perfect for the laptop slot. The included screws fit my new SSD perfectly. I did have some trouble getting the front bezel to attach. But, I believe that isn't the fault of this tray. I was pleasantly surprised when I added the screw hole to the back of this tray and the two holes were already present. My laptop picked up the new SSD in the DVD drive slot just fine. The BIOS also has settings to boot from it. So, connectivity is just fine.

This is a handy tray that I used on an HP envy-class laptop that I worked on customizing. When a modern laptop sold in the past decade only ships from a Walmart with a DVD R/W optical drive, it might as well get ripped out and replaced. Blu-ray or No Way! So I converted the optical drive bay into a hidden SSD drive bay with little to no problem. Unlike the optical drive, and this is a minor issue only, there is no way to screw this in place as the optical drive had a tab on it that allows the bottom cover to screw into it. I used 2 screws to mount the drive bay to the SSD and they also provided enough pressure to make sure the drive bay doesn’t come unmounted with normal use. I also attached a small strip of duct tape to the bottom of the bay to allow for easy removal if I ever need to change out the drive. The flat plastic cover that ships with the bay to look like a desktop PC optical tray door came off relatively easy with some careful wiggling and I was able to attach by pressing the plastic laptop optical drive bay door with no glue needed so it looks stick on the outside. I had no issue with drive recognition after formatting the drive externally with another computer. This bay seems to fit in the laptop readily due to its shape but always check before buying to make sure you are getting the correct fitting part. This bay is slip and I could only squeeze one 2.5” SSD in it at a time. For the price this works extremely well and I have had zero issues since first install.

From the little testing I have done this HDD holder is crazy fast when copying files from your main internal drive. It is also well made, and easy enough to set up. What you need to know. For one you will need to remove your laptops optical drive, and remove the back bracket off the back, and the front factory cover/face off of the drive if you want it to blend in and look good. My issues. (No fault of the drive holder.) I was using an old drive I had installed ubuntu onto. Why was that an issue? Well Windows doesn't talk with ubuntu, so at fires it looked like the HDD caddy didn't work, but quickly figuring out what happened I formatted the drive and boom it worked perfectly. What I am running in the drive holder. I am running an old Samsung drive from a old laptop. It is a HDD with a 750GB capacity. My system is a 2018 HP laptop with a RYZEN3 2200U processor, with a 1TB HDD, and 16GB of ram installed. All that said the drive holder works great I this laptop, and even my back up Lenovo ideapad3 I forget the specs on that laptop though. Wrapping this up I will say this I give the product a 9/10 because it is easy to use and alright to install. I would however recommend having a brand new HDD or SSD just because it would be easier for you, but you can use a old drive no problem if your willing to possibly have to format it. If you need extra storage or want to upgrade to a SSD, and have an extra HDD for more storage I say go ahead and buy it..

Worked great for what I needed it for and great value for the money. Tinkerdad approved!

Very easy to use in Mac books and replace 9 oz cdrom drive with less than 2. If you do it yourself please read up on your Mac book. Many sites show videos and many tech shops will do it for you. The ssd can becup to 2tb. But 600G. Should be great for most uses. Also not if have an hdd. You can replace that as well and see incredible load times. It also extended the usefulness of most Mac books.

I just finished installing this in my HP 15da0073 laptop, and I couldn't be happier. Mounting the HDD into the caddy couldn't be simpler. Slide the drive into place and install the four provided screws with the provided screwdriver. I thought I was going to have to completely disassemble my laptop, but I discovered that you only need to remove one screw to extract the optical drive. See the attached photo, it's the screw closest to the model number on the back of the laptop. After I pulled out the optical drive, I removed the little mounting tab from the back of the drive and transferred it to the caddy. Now, here's the part that was the pleasant surprise. The caddy comes with a simple black faceplate. I pulled that off to see what would be involved in mounting the trim from the original drive. I discovered that the caddy actually had mounting holes in all the right places to simply snap the HP trim into place. There are a few other mounting holes on the caddy, so hopefully it will be as easy for some other laptop makes as well. As shown in the attached photo, I was able to install the original trim onto the caddy, so the laptop looks just like it did before the upgrade. Slid the caddy into place, reinstalled the screw, and set up the new drive in Windows. Couldn't be happier with the installation, and it's nice to have the extra disk space on my laptop.

Works as expected in my HP laptop computer. Easy to use, good design to fit and work properly. Any hardware I needed to install it was with the drive caddy.

This aluminium made carriage can accommodate a 2.5" hard drive in replacement of the CD/DVD bay. Easy install (see youtube videos if necessary) and works perfectly.

Fonctionne parfaitement pour de qu’il devait accomplir. Le moins cher que j’ai trouver. Cependant, bien vérifier que le disque dur a un volume car il serait possible de penser qu’il n’est pas détecté alors que oui.

Fits the slot perfectly. Tip: Remove the old beauty cover from your original CD drive and attach it to the new caddy. It fills the gap and makes the installation look factory.

The whole thing is cheaply made, the screw holes don't perfectly match and it arrived slightly dented due to thin sheet metal casing. But for the price I paid for it, I'm willing to look past these imperfections since the device still works perfectly fine, and none of these imperfections are visible once in use. I recommend this product over the more expensive ones for that reason

Fit in my dvd drive slot and allowed me to install a second sdd easily and quickly