Will this work in the optical bay of any 15.6" laptop? I have one of the latest MSI laptops.
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It should work just fine. Just verify the height of your existing optical drive, usually 9. 5 or 12 mm and make sure you order the right one.
895966
It should work for any laptop with a 9.5mm disk drive (as opposed to 12.7mm).
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Yes. Make sure your the current DVD bay door side does not have an angle other than 90 degree
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Usually yes but measure the thickness of your original cdrom. Make sure it is 9.5mm. Their is a normal sized cd rom 12.7mm and a thin one 9.5mm. (This is usually in slim style laptops.) My MSI G70 and Lenovo G550 uses the 12.7. The 12.7 is more common.
895969
I think so . As long as its thickness is 9.5 mm ( a slim type of optical drive). It fits my Acer without any problem.
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Here is a link to the Asus specifications for this drive. http://www.asus.com/Optical_Drives/DRW24B3ST/specifications/
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I believe just the Mac mini headphone port doubles as an optical port with this adapter. Not positive though but I'm sure u could find out somewhere as I did for the Mac mini
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yes- I had a laptop that crashed but the optical drive was ok - I removed it from my laptop and now use it as an external optical drive ( it was very rare drive in that it was a "LABEL FLASH " capable !!! )
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I put this SSD in my MBP 13" (early 2011) and it works perfectly well. I reckon it should work with MBP 15".
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I'm afraid not since AFAIK, the optical drive on the ThinkPad T540p is fixed, not user-removable like the older models that adopts the Ultrabay technology.
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It should. I installed mine in a Dell XPS 15 laptop and it was a simple install.
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As Matt says, it should. All 27" iMacs have an optical out and this works with the optical out. FWW, it works fine on my Macbook Pro
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I used a laptop optical drive and it works great. The power resources for a desktop optical drive might be different because it usually has the extra moving parts of the tray that pushes open vs the laptop tray that pops open. I doubt that should make a difference though. If you know how to see what the power needs are for your desktop optical drive though, and it fits the amount given through usb, then it should work fine. My guess is that it would be ok. Since, if the power input is the same plug and pin layout, then it probably follows the same power requirements as well. Don't take my word on that though. But, it works great for my laptop optical drive.
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Yes but u may have to remove the hard drive rack and store it under your optical drive can't recall but I think that card is pretty long. Also the top bay kinda useless due to USB 3.0 cords block anything from getting in it.
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yep, works fine with my optical mouse. Also, I've got two screens running so the extra space is nice to have.
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I am sorry but I got it to work with my 10" Acer Aspire Notebook w/ windows 7. I was never able to get it to work. It shows that it is in there, but that is all.
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Nir, you may want to implement some of the Windows tweaks outlined at http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43460 which applies to the technology generally regardless of brand. I am still awaiting delivery of my OCZ SSD (Vertex 30gb) so I have not tried any of those alternate settings yet, but I intend to!
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This did not work adapting a laptop optical to STANDARD SATA. I needed what they call Slimline SATA to SATA: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009JXKQ9O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 -- Do the research, but yes, the description fits the specs of what you want to do. Problem you may encounter is fit inside the elitebook because of the adapter. I am saying you want THIS adapter, not the Slimline. Again, this is an opinion only, do your research. GH
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Compatible with 9.5mm or 12.7mm height Internal Slim Slot Loading Optical Drive. (not included)
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It should if you position it right. There's a huge space between the HDD/SDD inserts and optical drive, so you should be fine.
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Hey partner,Gene gives some good advise.Also, make sure your optical bay drive is a 12.7mm height.It could be a 9.5mm height and there are HDD caddies for the 9.5mm drive bays.One other thing to consider is the height of your HDD itself.There are several different heights of HDDs - 5mm (very recent); 7mm (mostly for SSDs); 9.5mm; and 12.5mm (usually for larger capacity drive - 750GB+).Depending on your HDD height and the caddy height, it may or may not fit in the HDD caddy.Hope this helps.Kevin