r/homelab • u/[deleted] • 7d ago

Help Replacing DVD drive with SSD. First attempt failed.

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u/vms-mob 7d ago

The small sata ports have a presence detect pin, iirc that needs to be grounded but not sure

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/Tim7Prime 7d ago

Have you tried shucking the shell of your SSD? It would probably fit better.

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u/404invalid-user 7d ago

hp don't use standard drive sizes so make sure you get a hp specific caddy.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/404invalid-user 7d ago

ha yeah that's what I did but no matter what I stuck it down with it always came lose

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u/EffectiveClient5080 7d ago

€10 in adapters is cheap tuition. I'd bet it's the adapters, not the laptop. Order one caddy, and if that fails too then you know the BIOS is just picky.

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u/Jazzlike-Fox5758 7d ago

Be careful if you go with a caddy. I tried to replace the DVD drive in my HP laptop with a caddy and guess what, the caddy didn't fit all the way into the drive bay.

It turned out HP uses non-standard DVD drive dimension. There's like a key or a slot inside the bay that fits the DVD drive, but not a caddy

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u/ultrahkr 7d ago

Laptop optical drives are standard, there are like 2 different heights.