HDD + SSD: Replacing Your DVD/Optical Drive With an SSD or HDD (READ DESCRIPTION) 

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I rarely comment on vids but will here. You've done MUCH better with this video than other who produce tech vids. You filled in gaps, those little bits of info that many people just skip over. You took the time to notice those little things and comment on them. You did this in both of your vids. Really, this is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

the best video I've seen on this subject, I didn't know that the caddies came in different Heights, saved me a lot of time. thanks

Ssd location does matter. Main drive sata vs optical bay speeds are different. If you want real performace, you want to swap the ssd to main drive and the hdd to the optical bay.

This is the best video on the topic of HDD/SSD replacement

A very clear presentation and the fact that you identify issues such as caddy depth, Etc. with clear descriptions of everythign is wonderful. Very much appreciated.

I watch a lot of tutorial videos. And this video is the easiest to understand and straight to the point

This is the most productive & professional video. You told us to check the laptop. Because all Laptop are different. You set out first. By telling the easy way. This has been very helpful to me. I have an old laptop. A Lenovo W500 that runs windows 10. It runs ok for now. But I know it could be better. Well you know what I will be doing next. You sir have a new subscriber. Thank you very much. Keep up the great work.

confusion of da highest odaaar...... nice video btw

I wish I find your chanel before it would save me a lot of work, i bought the larger one so I got to cut the adaptor so it could fit on my laptop I'm glad it worked... But you have a nice chanel gonna follow you now on

Thanks a lot for the guide, worked perfectly for me. And so glad you added the part about size too!!

Like that in the description you actually leave a description of what steps you did & how to do. Most ppl don't do that, or some will at least link a doc file to view (which is better than nothing). Also like your accent. Have one of those voices that makes you want to listening to 😉👍🏻 Cheers My Friend, A

Thanks to that caddy, everyone’s DVD burners are external now!

Wouldn't you technically be able to do the software transfer after the 2nd hard drive is installed with the caddy rather than doing the software transfer before using a slow USB link?

2:03 If you don't trust your own measuring abilities, you can also google the type mentioned on the drive. There will be atleast 1 site mentioning it's dimensions. (though >3mm is hard to overlook measuring) 4:07 That's called a "bezel", for the ones who want to know. (You're welcome...) Optical Drives aren't used very often anymore anyway, so why not upgrade with let's say 1TB or 2TB. Harddisk and SSD prices are low these days. In some cases the optical drive even needs to be cleaned from dust inside, yes inside :S. I know i am replacing mine, in my HP Omen, with an SSD. The external optical drive is faster anyway, for some reason. Optical drives barely, or not at all, exceed USB3.0 speeds, while SSD can perform better connected directly to the motherboard. HP will suggest to not use a caddy, but external HDD instead. But they have it the other way around.

Hey I know this is an old video, but thanks, it just helped me a lot.

Quick question. Does having the SSD in the caddy make that much of a difference in read/write speed compared to as when it is placed in main drive slot?

Best video about installment of caddy drive

Thank you very much, my laptop's SATA port died and I've been running Windows portably through USB 3, this is a great solution since my laptop has no warranty (I got it for free since the previous owner deemed it hopeless)

thanks alot bro... i follow you tutorial.. and my laptop just fine.. thanks again.. double thumb up

Hi EasyTechs!! I find your video very informative. I had a HDD which I cloned and replaced with an SSD. I now want to swap my Optical drive with the old HDD, which still has the OS and all the old files still on it. Do I have to format my old HDD before swapping with the optical drive?

Thanks. I already bought 9.5mm instead of 12.7mm. but it's working fine.

Great video and made a decision to buy. I installed SSD in primary and HDD in optical caddy. Both are working fine. But the HDD is working slow. The transfer rate, opening a folder in HDD is very slow.....any suggestions???

Nice and easy tutorial... 👍🏻 Installing SSD makes the laptop faster??

Thank you very much, this came in very handy !

Great video, thank you for making it and sharing it with us. All my parts have arrived to to this mod so I found your video really straight forward to follow. Before I start I do need to understand how I can clone my current drive onto my Caddy with a new SSD in so that the faster SSD will be my primary drive for the laptops functionality. Then I can use my slower HDD for other file storage, so I have a bit more research to do before I start. Kind regards. Paul from 48-SPOKES (UK)

Thanks for your very informative videos! One quick question: is there any difference in placing the SSD in the optical drive bay and keep the HDD in its place? Or do you recommend to set up the SDD always in the hard drive slot? Thanks!

People for have a problem of speed with this method , on you"re HDD there are little pin just on the left of the sata port , that mean that you're hard drive need to be pluged on the main place and put the ssd on the caddy

I'm in the process of upgrading my old laptop. The optical disk drive is not working properly. This is a great way to use the wasted space. Thank you

Thank you very easily explained 🙂

thanks again for the very informative video! :D

Amazing video. Can I ask, is it possible to transfer my OS and files to my new SSD 'AFTER' fitting it in the caddy/optical drive bay? Or it it absolutely essential to make the transfer first externally?

I have tried the same thing with my lenovo b570e laptop ssd is working fine but the data transfer speed of hdd is very very low(it is hardly 200kbps)

Please make video regarding What company SSD drive we should buy?

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Thank you for 'showing me da way'

First of all, thank you for the video. What is the easiest way to make sure you get an optical drive bay tray that matches your current HDD or SSD?

Thank you. Very clear instructions :)

Thank you so much for the video!

Thanks sir its very useful video

Thank you for this idea. 1. Can I do clean install of Windows 11 to the ssd and use the old hdd as my storage drive? 2. Is it okay to just use 120gb ssd to install the Windows OS there?

It is possible to begin with replacing DVD with SSD on caddy, make the clone transfer from HDD to SSD, switch the HDD and SSD and boot from SSD ?

Hey I have a question , I am confused about my optical drives sata version because I've heard that putting an SSD in the optical drive which is sata 2 is less performance so I would like if I had some way to check what version my optical drive is

i can't tell you how much this video helped me. :> can you keep a secret? it helped a lot. it also convinced my dad to buy me an ssd. :D so thanks for that too.

Thank you so much for this. Subscribed✌🏾

Nicely explained thank u

Hi I installed a new ssd on place of dvd drive on my old laptop and installed OS on it. But the performance is not upto the mark. A local technician sa8d that it because i installed the SSD on olace of DVD DRIVE. I should have installed on place if the old HDD. And keep the Old hdd on olace of dvd. It it true?

Excellent one. Was really helpful...

if I put new SSD in main storage slot and keep my old HDD in caddy cd drive and run new OS from SSD, then HDD work at same like it worked before? some saying that HDD is working slow when it is kept in caddy .. Anyone answer this

Will the following order work? 1. Install the SSD straight into the (former) optical drive; 2. Then transfer the OS (Windows 10) across to the SSD; 3. Then change the bios to boot from the SSD.

Is there a chance that it won't fit to some laptop? Like the outer case part didn't match or some screws didn't match?

Which one is better SSD in HDD compartment or optical drive compartment?

Very useful info. Thanks!

Is there a speed difference if the SSD is connected in the optical drive rather than the HDD place?

A very good video thanks for the detailed procedures ... it was very usful for me.

so which one is better? replacing the whole hdd and putting all the files into an ssd or this -combining ssd (os) +hdd (for your files)??

I migrated os to ssd and now placed the HDD at cd drive place , then how to do setting in bios ? For booting though ssd

thank you for this useful video, just please do me a favor, let me know is this procedure applicable for "ASUS K45 VD"? or need something else?

Thanks alot sir ♥

Subscribed.. helpful video

Can you tell me all the integrated/internal gpus on your laptop? And what is the card youre using on the eGPU

Excuse me, do you know where i can find the folder Documents in the HDD?

Will this affect the performance of the HDD in question?

Is there any speed differences in the hard drive after putting in the CD drive slot.

HI do you have any video on How to boot windows in the CAddy port ? My Main Sata cable is broke. I can only use the Optical caddy sata port.

Do caddy has an indicator light just like dvd drive?

Thanks for this nice video, I want to have windows 10 on the new SSD (I have a licence key) and I want to keep my original Win 8.1 on the mechanical drive AND be able to boot into Win 8.1 as well, could you please advise about making my laptop dual boot?

really its help full

Thanks for this tutorial. Btw, what will happen if I'm using that hard drive then I pop open the slot?

Whats the difference between putting ssd on caddy and on hdd spot i need to open up my pc to put ssd on hdd spot its going to be a hassle for me because i don’t trust myself to pry open the laptop and replace ssd on hdd spot and hdd on caddy

Hai sir...the minitool partition wizard need serial key... I just install the latest version.. can't futher the next step of copy disk..need to buy license for the software

how do you solve the problem if there is an operating system on both hard drives?

Hi, I facing an issue.I replacing my HDD with new SSD and plan to put new SSD in harddisk bay while the old HDD in caddy. When I boot up my laptop, I can see the HDD in boot menu but I cannot see the HDD in disk management after my laptop finish boot up.

hello sir.....i am confused wheather to install ssd in disk slot or hdd slot......is there any difference??

Hi Sir, I have HP Elitebook 8460p laptop . Which Type of SSD and Caddy support to my laptop. Please suggest... ?

do you remove the laptop battery when adding a second hard drive

hey sir is there a way i an disable the optical drive so it cannot make that noise of spinning when i boot it?

Hi I want to add my old laptop’s hdd to my new laptop’s optical drive bay which I found is 12.7 mm type. But the problem I am facing now is that my old hdd is of serial ata 150 type. So will it work? And where can I get a caddy with sata 150 connectors?

If I replace CD drive with ssd will it affect booting speed and read write speed ?

Sir, I put my hdd on my caddy. But, there is a clicking sound while booting up, shutdown, and restart. Is it okay to my hdd sir? Or, is it better to change the position? Hdd on its original place and ssd on caddy..

Is this mod possible for the Acer Aspire E15?

Hi there and thanks for a very informative video! Quick question though, is it possible to boot a copy of Windows from the Hard Drive in the caddy? I'm planning on getting a SSD for Windows 10 that will sit in my laptop's storage bay, but want to run Windows 7 off of the HDD in the caddy as I need Windows 7 for some older programs. Any help would be much appreciated!

sooo it's okay for both drives to have the OS and you basically just pick one of em in the bios?

is there any speed difference in optical drive port and in main storage port ? any in port i can install ssd and can get the same speed ?

I upgraded my laptop with samsung SSD and put hdd into dvd drive but hdd sometimes shows and sometimes not could you please help in this

what screwdriver size would I need to use?

Can i use the DVD adapter to SSD like a primary disc? my HDD port doesn't work on my laptop

please make a video on how to transfer your OS to an SSD

i am gonna be upgrading my 2tg hdd with 240gb ssd, for which i need to clone my hdd to ssd which only has 53gb of data and 15gb of system image n all, my question is after i have cloned my hdd to an ssd how do i format the hdd , bcz there has to be a time that both drives are connected and both have windows, so will my windows license will become invalid , kindly help ???asap.

I inserted Ssd in hardrive bay and hdd in optical bay but forgot to Migrate First. What should i Do now to migrate Os from HDD to ssd? I am getting ntfs error by trying to migrate using minitool partition. please help

I have a dell Inspiron 5558 laptop and I replaced my dvd rom with a WD SATA SSD. But whenever I put back my battery the ssd isn't detected and the laptop doesn't boot. Sometimes it starts working if I remove the drive and put is all together and sometimes it doesn't detect. Can you help me with this?

Should i Add my SSD to CD ROM Slot or Replace SSD to Hard drive slot and keep Harddrive to CD Rom slot. Because i heard that there may be issue of frequency of CD ROM which is 1.5 GHz and it doesnot performs better. So is it advisable to replace HDD slot with SSD and put HDD in CD ROM slot?

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@easyTechs Thanks for the video. I do have a question though. Doesn't the carry pop out when the button on the DVD Rom - now the new compartment - is pressed?

This is a GREAT video. But I have one question: why did you put the SSD in the original drive bay and the old HDD in the converted optical drive caddy? Can I just put the SSD in the caddy and avoid messing with the HDD?

Is there any difference doing these steps in both windows and Ubuntu ? I use Ubuntu. Help me out please.

My HDD is not showing in the bios is there something I can do to fix it please tell me

I have an Acer Apire ES1-572 34NU 2017 laptop . Is it possible to put an SATA-3 Supported caddy and a SATA-3 SSD by using this method.

So if I have an SSD already, I can add another SSD no problem? Also would it increase my PC speed? Like whatever I put on that SSD.

Hi, i would like to ask about the ssd. If i change my dvd drive to ssd. Can i directly mirror the windows to the ssd from my current hdd? Do i need to change any setting in the bios? Is there any difference if i put the ssd in hdd slot or the dvd drive slot? Thank you.