Where do you install the optical drive?
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There are four drive bays on the front of the case for installing removable media drives or accessory panels. I have a DVD drive in one bay, and a USB/card reader panel in another. I haven't used the other two bays.
2129313
There are screw holes available on the normal HDD mounting brackets. There is also a place on the MB mounting tray to install a SDD.
583995
no because it's too small, however, there are three slots for an optical drive. The external hard drive slots can be accessed from the outside either so there is no point placing a optical drive there.The optical drive cannot for into an external hard drive slot.
1302096
This is a desktop optical drive. Buy a external usb dvd drive if you want something external.
1041673
you can remove the dvd drive and insert a cady that can be purchased on ebay. hope this helps
673946
There is only one hard drive bay which is already occupied. If you do not use the optical drive you and remove it and get a hard drive caddy and put one in there.
703235
Yes to both questions. It's one of the Main features i apreciated to have (optical drive)
25302
Ugh, no optical drive!? How am I supposed to watch DVD's, play my games or upload music!? Those aren't extinct yet!
53214
no, I did install one, but hardly use it. There are some CD/DVD/BR that do not image correctly to the hard disk, but copy ok when duplicated from one drive to the other (like MS windows)
1110455
It doesn't have an optical drive. You would have to get an external optical drive and connect it via USB
1683220
The piece it comes with is intended to mount on the front of an optical drive with double-sided tape, and there is no other included way to mount it. I believe your best option is to duct tape it in place from the inside.
1407332
If you don't need an optical drive, you'll be able to put in an ssd and hdd, with the appropriate adapter to put one of them where the optical drive normally goes. Having said that, I will mention that I was not particularly pleased with the quality of this case, or lack thereof, and design of this case. I found, for example, that there was no way to avoid having the processor cooling fins on an Intel DM-510 motherboard pushing on the SATA cable for the HDD. I replace the case with a Lian-Li PC-Q07, a better design and better build quality, in my opinion.
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No, the slimline optical drive must be purchased separately. (On a side note: if you do buy a slimline optical drive, be sure to verify the power requirements for it. The optical drive I purchased required a converter cable to change from the standard SATA connector on my power supply.)
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No.I believe you can purchase an adapter for the optical drive location and place a second HDD in there. This will replace your current optical drive of course, so you would have to decide if that's something you can live without or you could purchase an external optical drive.
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Backlit (which is standard nowadays), I'm not sure about the optical drive...
2127046
External DVD drive would be the best option. Optical drives are atypical on lightweight ultrabooks.
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hey maverick,Here is some helpful info about this. I'm assuming you still have the original optical drive that came with your computer look at the back if your drive if looks like the back of a sata drive and its a newer system then you need the 9.5mm one. if your system is older it will look different and that is pata the 12.7 mm one. other then that this goes in the optical drive slot. i hope this info helps you out.