Anyone who has for many years engaged in business notebooks, which wants to touch at some point no consumer notebooks more, because small but important details are missing, the place sometime usability in question.
These useful features, for example, includes a removable optical drive.
I have here a whole pile Thinkpad 770 (then up to 16,000 DM cost) lying around as used equipment. A great feature were there the UltraBay II slots, on which you could plug in the laptop either a floppy drive, a Zip drive, a second hard drive, a CD or DVD drive or a second battery, of course, during operation (hot-swap ). These parts fit into the external docking station (which you could make a 770er a high-end PC with tons of extensions).
The same principle was continued at Lenovo Thinkpads with the Ultrabay Enhanced, but just much smaller. In the same generation devices (eg R61 and Z61) can thus be for example HDDs and ODDs freely shared among.
Now I have an Edge E530 Thinpad which moves on the border between business and consumer device and because now unfortunately falls the Ultrabay concept the price victim. But fortunately, there are these caddies to a second hard disk installed by some providers.
Therefore, I have picked out those of CSL and was not disappointed.
Delivered the Caddy in a cardboard packaging and puts additionally in a film. Included is a small screwdriver. Unlike on the box the manual is not attached to the side on the Caddy but the drive bay (the product images show it correctly!). This means that the instructions can no longer be seen with built-in HDD. Ok, so difficult it is not, but if you want to swap the HDD again in two years, then you forget perhaps the grub screws.
Aprospos grub screws (ie screws without screw head, which therefore can be quite sink and are usually used to Arretierungszwecken):
In step 4 of the procedure is shown that you may left and right depending on a set screw for fixing the HDD Screw on the housing (but please not too deep!).
At first I was angry that only a set screw is present, the second thread empty. Even in the case anywhere rattling. After a few hours I got the tiny grub screw then still found. Better than the loosely screwed into the thread with the danger of losing the screws would be the industry standard adjudicate a small sachet / zip bag with the screws.
It is important for installation in a wide variety of laptops that often device-specific aperture to use, you should also reuse the appearance sake. Therefore, these Slim drives (12.7mm height) are also standardized and have established for the panel mounting holes.
The aperture is only clipped on both Caddy and dismounted ODD. With a little rest and no power can remove the bezel without problems and also re-attach.
I have the bezel removal shown in the customer images times.
First you look for the opening in the "flat" part of the Caddy-bottom (the ODD to the extended (!) Drawer). The visible there nose pressing down gently while lightly pulling with the other hand at the diaphragm. Once this attachment is disengaged can be drawn from the openings the remaining 3 tabs easily. Conversely, the very hakelig and leads to breakage!
The installation of the changed aperture takes place exactly in the reverse order.
The HDD itself can be inserted into the caddy when one turns back the grub screws and a black plastic part removed, which is laterally mounted with two resilient tabs. This plastic part is used for plugging the HDD on the SATA connector in the remaining gap and the grub screws in the threads of 2.5 "screwed -plate, with a few turns rich. It's not about" tightening "but only by screwing the is set screws. Especially with SSDs otherwise a danger that the screw disappears completely in the SSD and then destroy the electronics. In classical HDDs with a cast housing which is usually not a problem.
After installation in the laptop, the second HDD is recognized immediately. So I'm going to replace the system board by a SSD and operate the original 500GB HDD as a data grave in the Caddy. The developed ODD (DVD Writer) I will incorporate into an external USB 12.7mm slim body while it eventually must be time to read or write a CD / DVD.
Of course, any other attachments must also be shipped from ODD to the Caddy, eg tabs for screwing, but that's individually depending on the device, but uses the standardized housing fittings, should not be a problem.
Oh yes, positively, it should be noted that the supplied panel is not fake but a real ODD bezel, so with eject button and LED window, although none is available from both the Caddy, but can perhaps be used in an external housing.
A test with a Samsung 840 EVO Basic demonstrates that no loss of SATA III transfer occur by the adapter, as measured 520 MB / s according to the theoretical limit of SATA III with a possible net data rate of 4.8 Gbit / s = 600 MByte / s