Features:

  • 100% Brand New and High Quality
  • Add a 2nd drive to your laptop by replacing your optical drive(CD/DVD-ROM)
  • This device accepts 2.5 inch 9.5mm / 7mm high or less SATA HDD / SSD.
  • Compatible with: DELL HP LENOVO ThinkPad ACER Gateway ASUS SONY SAMSUNG MSI Laptop which has a 9.5mm high CD/DVD-ROM driver.
  • Package includes: 1x hard drive caddy with universal bezel/faceplate + 1x screwdriver(The CD-ROM in the pictures is not included)
Almost perfect for Dell Optiplex Small Form Factor (SFF), EXTREMELY PLEASED

I wanted to install a SSD in addition to the factory HD. The Dell Optiplex SFF does not have a lot of space as you can imagine. Even worse, is the lack of extra power cables. I don't really need the CD/DVD drive but there was still a problem involving the power cables... This adapter allows me to connect the Slimeline Sata power cable to the adapter and my SSD sits securely within and connects to a built in standard Sata power and Data connector, the whole thing can then be slid into the same bay as the slimeline CD/DVD drive. Only minor points off because the faux cover does not completely extend and cover the full surface. I am sure there are plenty of machines that it does but for the Optiplex there is about a 1-2mm gap at the bottom. If it bothered me that bad I would just take the cover off of my actual drive and glue it on (the prongs do not line up). Overall, EXTREMELY PLEASED

Worked good

It fit my Dell Latitude E6440 good and the HDD is working well. The quality is good, they included everything needed and it was easy to install. Now I have my whole previous laptop as the D drive on my new laptop and that's very convenient for me so I am very happy with this purchase. There are screw holes in the bottom that will align with some threaded holes in your HDD. This comes with the screws and a screw driver to put them in the holes to secure the HDD. The plastic cover that came with this did not match the curvature of my laptop. I was able to just carefully but firmly pull the plastic cover off of my dvd drive and put it on this caddy by just pushing it on.

Works great in Lenovo Thinkpad E540. Save your DVD bezel to re-use

I replaced a DVD R/W in a Lenovo Thinkpad E540 with the Highfine Universal Caddy and installed a 1TB Samsung SSD as the storage device. Here are my observations: -- WORKS PERFECT: After installed , it worked perfectly first time. -- EASY INSTALL: Very easy to install. -- NO INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED. No instructions needed. There is plenty of Utube and other helpful instructions online. -- NEED TO REUSE SOME PARTS: You need to save the metal tab on the end and carefully remove the DVD plastic bezel to reuse. -- UNIVERSAL BEZEL NOT A PERFECT FIT: It comes with a flat plastic universal bezel but my E540 laptop has a highly beveled attachment. While the universal bezel will fit, there is a large gap underneath and probably not good for the highly engineered air flow needed to keep the electronics cooled. If your replacing a DVD save the bezel to re-use. -- DON'T BUY A CADDY ON EBAY!: I purchased a caddy on Ebay and over several days had problems with random blue screen and rebooting. The contacts on the connectors appeared thin and dull. When I would flex the laptop buy picking it up with one hand the laptop would blue screen or reboot. -- HIGHFINE IS BETTER QUALITY: The Highfine caddy is subtlety different then the Ebay unit and the Highfine caddy SATA contacts look more robust, thicker with better quality gold vaporized on the contacts. When I pick up the laptop as mentioned above there were not issues with rebooting or blue screen. All around 100% better than ebay.

Works as advertised!

Always check the size of your drive, but this worked phenomenal! I upgraded to a SSD and I use this for my 1TB drive for all my multimedia so I don't have to keep an external hard drive with me as I never use the DVD drive anyway. I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5558 and the disk drive has a unique faceplate that makes it flush with the laptop so I recommend using the faceplate that came with your laptop but they also provide a generic one if you don't want to take it off your existing disk drive.

Exactly what I needed for Lenovo Ideapad 500 SSD upgrade.

Price was right, worked exactly as I needed it to on a Lenovo Thinkpad 500 model. Watched a vid on Youtube, within 10 mins had the HDD out, swapped for the SSD and the HDD mounted in this thing. It's not a perfect fit for the laptop, but it's on the bottom and unnoticeable, + I could take use the original drive's vanity plate I bet, just don't care. To stay secure, there is one bit of the original DVD drive with 2 screws that has to be swapped to this thing. Once all the screws are back in underneath the keyboard, one of them uses that little bit to keep the bay stuck there. The 4 screws that came with it didn't work well with the HDD. 1 stripped, 2 felt secure, and the 4th just went in crooked so I left it out. But that might be the drive more than the screws.

Works very well, at a fraction of the price of the official version

Bought this to replace the optical drive in a Lenovo W541 so I could add a hard disk drive to the built-in SSD and make room for a bunch of virtual machines. It was easy to install, and works well for a much lower price than the "official" version. I diod wind up using the plastic outside cover from the optical drive because the one that was included had a slight curve to it (presumably for a different laptop) and didn't fit flushly. But that was the only installation glitch -- for the price, can't ask for better.

Very nice fit for my Toshiba S75

One screw on the bottom the the laptop to remove the old DVD drive. You transfer the bracket from the back of the old drive to the new caddy (2 screws hold the bracket). Use a paper clip in the front access hole to open the old drive. Work carefully now, there are 4 plastic tabs to gently loosen the old bezel loose from the old drive (I prefer a jewelers flat screwdriver to coax them to let go). On the new drive, had to open up the far left (facing the front of the drive) vertical hole a bit with my jewelers screwdriver to get it to accept the tall vertical tab that's going into it. The hole was OK, but there was a piece of plastic to the RIGHT side of the FAR LEFT VERTICAL HOLE in the way... took several tries. Had to shave away some plastic with the sharp end of the jewelers screwdriver. Helps to have a bright small flashlight to see what's going on. That was the only hole with any trouble for the old bezel. After that, is pretty close to a perfect fit. Looks great in my laptop.

Good but need the stable keeper metal with it or should be instruction to do some changed steps.

I liked this product but there was only one thing that I could not figure out in a short time. I put my ssd inside of this and I took out my cd driver but , after I try to deploy this product, there was a missing part which is the keeper metal to make the cd room stable and I deployed that metal into it and I spent 30 minutes to take it inside but it did not happen . After that I change the metal’s place upside down and used longer screw and made it stable and then it worked. It is good but this metal should be inside of this product or it should work with that metal . Apart from this I did not have any problem. It is little bit shorter than my cd rom bot that is not a big deal

Works great

I purchased this again for Acer Aspire 5 A517 laptop. The laptop already had two drives - one SSD and one 2TB HDD. This caddy added another 2TB. I was able to remove faceplate from Acer DVD and fix that on this caddy so laptop looks no different from outside. Previous review Does the job. The faceplace didn't fit my Asus laptop. I removed faceplate of the DVD caddy that came with laptop and was able to plug the faceplate on this caddy. I guess all caddies have some standard faceplate brackets.

Great way to add a drive to your laptop!

So basically this is a chassis for a 2.5" HDD with SATA connections that fits into the space where an optical drive goes. Easy install on my Dell Inspirion gaming laptop. Used it to expand much needed storage space. Windows 10 reads it just as another SATA drive. Obviously, you lose your optical drive but I remedied that with buying an external slim enclosure. Which also allowed me to know transport my Blu-Ray optical drive to any computer. I gained more storage space for games and a portable optical drive. It was a Win-Win for me! The only downside was actually the most simple... Replacing the bezel was a bit tricky. Yes, you can take the bezel of your optical drive off but be careful. Break those tabs and it's game over on the aesthetics. The bezel this comes with isn't very neat looking.

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