A SSD HDD Caddy Adapter Case for Adding SDD on Laptop
The SDD still can not replace the traditional HDD since the cost and stability. We normally buy a 120 GB ~ 500 GB storage size SSD as extra storage disk. We have options to put the SSD into our laptop so that we get 2 "hard drives": the one is the existing HDD, another one is SSD.
If your laptop came with mSATA slot inside then you are luck to buy mSATA SSD and install directly without removing or replacing anything, but not all laptops support mSATA, then you will have to consider removing or replacing something. if your laptop came with an optical drive, then you have 2nd lucky, you can keep your existing big storage size HDD, remove the optical drive to install a SSD drive there. (Why removing optical drive because we have fewer and fewer chance to use an optical drive, if you have special case which need optical drive heavy usage, then please do not follow this article )
Today we are NOT going to introduce how to remove optical drive and replace it with a SSD, but we just want to mention there is one important stuff which we need to buy in the entire process of adding a SSD as internal drive (By the way we do have old posts which were about how to install extra SSD onto our old laptop, you can check this one or more to get more information).
The stuff's name called SSD / HDD Caddy Adapter or SSD / HDD Caddy Case, normally the interface is SATA.
You will have to put the SSD onto the caddy case before you put the SSD into your laptop. The below picture shows a SATA SSD Caddy with a SSD installed.
After you attached SSD on the caddy, then you just plugin to your laptop through the location of old optional drive, check below image:
We will have detail guide which is about how to Add a SSD on Laptop using SSD HDD Caddy Adapter later. welcome coming back to check new information !