2002whitegt

hows the caddy you got from amazon? does using it in the ODD sata affects speed? I mean is it sata 1 or sata 2 speed? im planning to do the same for my m14x, sdd as primary and the stock hdd will be secondary in a caddy placed in the odd.

I have had no problems with speed, I install all of my steam games onto the stock hdd connected to the caddy, and all the games play perfect. This mod really does get you the best of both worlds, speed of an ssd and storage.

I haven't had any heating issues with my r1, but at this point in time there are better options available, mainly being the r2 or lenovo y400

this is awesome, but does anyone have an alternative site/place to buy the optical bay caddy because the ebay one seems to take soo long, from what i hear, the minimum time for delivery would be 10days

I know this is a late response, but I thought it would maybe benefit those still looking to do this mod but not use ebay.

I got this caddy from Amazon and it worked great.

Amazon.com: Micro SATA Cables - 9.5mm SATA to SATA HDD Hard Disk Drive Caddy Adapter: Computers & Accessories

I also wanted to keep the dvd useful so I got this enclosure and after some minor mods (cutting a peg) works nicely

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005RFOJT6/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks again for this tutorial, it was great to get ssd speed and still have room for files and games

I installed Win 8 on my m14x and regret it, working on installing Win-7 as i am typing this.

I recently upgraded to windows 8 from 7 and I'm loving it, took a while to get used to it, but I committed and now I enjoy the faster boot time and the start screen isn't as scary as I thought it was a few months ago.