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

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.

Exact fit, works as described.

I installed this in my MacBook Pro a1322 and it fit but only barely. The dimensions were slightly off but it did work. Build quality is okay but not the greatest. It will do the job and does securely hold the drive when it's installed. I would recommend using you're own screws though since the ones they give you are what you would see in a desktop computer case and not a laptop. Other than that, it's worth the money for what you get and will do the job you set out to do, adding a second drive to your older laptop and getting rid of the useless optical drive.

Works just as described...

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..

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.

I bought this to use with a 2009 17" MacBook Pro, which is still surprisingly usable when fitted with an SSD. I literally never use optical drives anymore, so being able to swap it out for more internal storage was appealing. I'm just an enthusiast, but I've done quite a bit of work repairing and upgrading laptops, so this wasn't too hard to install, but it isn't easy either. It is MUCH harder than just upgrading the stock hard disk in a MacBook Pro of this era, since you have to disconnect a number of cables with very delicate connectors, and also transfer a metal bracket and bluetooth module from the original drive to the caddy. There are a lot of tiny fiddly screws that can get lost or dropped into the innards of the laptop. I don't want to discourage anyone, but I think this is a bit more than the average person might be comfortable with. That said, as long as you know what you're getting into, this bracket worked great and it's hard to beat the price. I installed a 2TB SSD with this caddy, and also have a 360GB one installed in the normal location. That's a lot of internal storage for a laptop! By the way, you can boot from the drive in the caddy just fine if you select it under "Startup Disk" in the system preferences.

The photos are not of the exact product I recieved. Overall it’s the same adapter, but the one I recieved does not have the side screws or even the cutouts for side screws in it. Meaning you HAVE TO use screws in the bottom. But then there are screws sticking out a couple tenth of a millimeter. Not a lot, but that can make it incompatible with many laptops. I’m using it in a desktop with a slim drive bay. Even then, I had to kind of bend out the mounting bracket of the case so those protruding screws could slide past.