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post #521 of 551
1/5/07 at 7:18am
Well I ordered my caddy and it should be here within the next few days. I found a name brand caddy and I will let you know the results when it arrives. It takes an ata drive so I think i'm going to put my 80gb drive in it with Vista x64 and see what happens... Oh not to mention that the caddy sits flush like the DVD drive minus markings and button... Nice!

I will let you all know the results and if it is good, I plan on buying the guy's whole stock to offer to you guys...
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post #522 of 551
1/6/07 at 12:42am
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Originally Posted by Divine_Madcat
Why hide the details of it?

Is it less than $40-50? I would have a use for a caddy, but really don't feel like being ripped for a piece of plastic...

well divine, at least now you know why molibobbin didnt give up the source.
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post #523 of 551
1/9/07 at 11:23pm
Would like to order Hard Drive Caddy ASAP from patrickvo, qj.xu, or someone else. Unfortunately, patrickvo is not currently accepting pm's or emails from the notebook forum, and qj.xu hasn't responded to my last 2 emails.
Can anyone help me in getting the Hard Drive Caddy?
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post #524 of 551
1/16/07 at 11:06pm
I need to buy at least one of these ASAP. I am willing to pay extra to get them soon, including taking care of shipping with my FedEx account. Anyone with an extra one please PM me with how much you want for it.
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post #525 of 551
1/16/07 at 11:14pm
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Originally Posted by Divine_Madcat
Is it less than $40-50? I would have a use for a caddy, but really don't feel like being ripped for a piece of plastic...
$40-50 sounds like a good deal to me... As long as it works I would be more than willing to pay that. Anyone want to get rid of an extra one?
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post #526 of 551
1/16/07 at 11:18pm
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Originally Posted by molibobbin
Well I ordered my caddy and it should be here within the next few days. I found a name brand caddy and I will let you know the results when it arrives. It takes an ata drive so I think i'm going to put my 80gb drive in it with Vista x64 and see what happens... Oh not to mention that the caddy sits flush like the DVD drive minus markings and button... Nice!

I will let you all know the results and if it is good, I plan on buying the guy's whole stock to offer to you guys...
I installed Vista RC2 on it, and it works fine.
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post #527 of 551
1/29/07 at 7:10pm
FYI, this looks like the same caddy that's been discussed.

eBay item - New! 2nd second Hard Drive caddy :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...DME:B:EF:US:11

I have bought from the other sources in this forum and am happy with the service they provided. But, this is another source and at a slightly lower price including air mail shipping from Hong Kong. I did buy the USB external CD/DVD case from the same seller of the eBay item, and received good service here also
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post #528 of 551
2/8/07 at 7:50pm
If you go to www.dell.com and search for "9300", you'll find many documents. Click on "Manuals" on the left menu. You want "service manual" and "user manual" for pictures of the 9300. This applies to all Dell computers, not just the 9300!
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post #529 of 551
2/16/07 at 9:30am
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Originally Posted by AgentEE7
FYI, this looks like the same caddy that's been discussed.

eBay item - New! 2nd second Hard Drive caddy :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...DME:B:EF:US:11

I have bought from the other sources in this forum and am happy with the service they provided. But, this is another source and at a slightly lower price including air mail shipping from Hong Kong. I did buy the USB external CD/DVD case from the same seller of the eBay item, and received good service here also
I read somewhere else in the 36+ pages of this thread that there are 2 different caddies available for IBM series laptops. One will work with the 9300 with some minor mods. One won't. The one you've linked is the one that doesn't work. I was ready to make a move on the caddy until I read that.

Now I've got to try and source another. The two Chinese guys that used to sell them seem to be out of the game.
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post #530 of 551
2/17/07 at 3:03am
I bought one of the caddies for use in my e1705. it worked great for few weeks until the RAID-0 set I had went bad because the drive in the caddy lost something akin to partition information. Trying to rebuild the array I experienced the drive loosing its partition information randomly. I thought it was the my 60gb 72k travelstar but then I tried an older 30gb 4200rpm as single drive and had the same intermittent problem with the drive dissapearing and having to initialize it upon reboot because it loost all the partition information. Interestingly, the partition and the information on the drive was fine when put in a usb case. I don't know if the power requirements of a HDD are not handled well by the laptop's cd interface or the adapter I bought is at fault but I'm wondering if anyone else having any issues with the caddies
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post #531 of 551
2/25/07 at 8:48pm

Found an eBay seller

As per this eBay seller (and it sounds a lot like the guy who used to frequent these boards), the caddy he has for sale works with the 9300/9400. Lots of photos included in the listing (scroll down). If I read it correctly, you need to cannibalize an existing optical drive and fit it with one of these caddies.

Am I reading this correctly? Is this similar to the caddies that people previously purchased directly from this guy in China?

EDIT: No cannibalizing needed. Caddies are for IBM lappies and would look better in them, but they slide into the 9300 bay no problem.

EDIT2: it-glasses eBay store
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post #532 of 551
2/26/07 at 3:14am
Im gonna give it a shot and get one to see if it will work, I got an extra 120 Gig sitting around that I have Linux on, its going to be nice to have 200+ Gigs on my 9300.
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post #533 of 551
2/26/07 at 5:59am
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Originally Posted by celly
As per this eBay seller (and it sounds a lot like the guy who used to frequent these boards), the caddy he has for sale works with the 9300/9400. Lots of photos included in the listing (scroll down). If I read it correctly, you need to cannibalize an existing optical drive and fit it with one of these caddies.

Am I reading this correctly? Is this similar to the caddies that people previously purchased directly from this guy in China?

it does look similar, might have to look into it. just wish it was for sata drives, anf not just regular old ata drives
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post #534 of 551
3/6/07 at 10:12pm
I got my caddies (scored 5 of them) from that eBay seller in China. Got here in just over a week (if that) to Canada. Impressive. These caddies are of better quality than I thought they would be. They're geared to IBM applications (even says so on 4 of the 5 I received), but they worked first attempt for me in my I9300. I wish the caddy itself sat a bit more flush in the bay, but it's in there good.

I'd recommend this seller if anyone is still looking for these caddies. I suspect the seller is the same guy that used to sell on this site.
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post #535 of 551
3/8/07 at 2:33pm
I ordered one as well, just havent received it yet.
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post #536 of 551
3/12/07 at 10:42pm
Got mine today took about 12 days, it sits actually pretty flush in my 9300 and worked first time 240 gigs alright Im just wondering how we get it out?? Plus I think im going to take off the IBM stock face plate and put my DVD drive face plate on their and try to get the LED to work as well. Awsome upgrade for anyone with a 9300. Might even work on any laptop with the same pattern of the 9300, get ahold of me if u want and I can "lend" it to you so you can test fit it in your non 9300 laptops
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post #537 of 551
3/13/07 at 2:47am
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Originally Posted by Firefighter3110
it sits actually pretty flush in my 9300.... Im just wondering how we get it out??....Plus I think im going to take off the IBM stock face plate and put my DVD drive face plate on their and try to get the LED to work as well.
Mine fits better now. Lots of empty space in the bezel area of the bay. I think it would look better with a bezel off an optical drive, but I'm not going to bother. As far as "getting it out", I use the same method I use with the OEM optical drive. I removed the little bracket that goes on an OEM drive. Had to drill two small holes in the caddy to accommodate. I actually had an extra drive kicking around for that piece so my DVD burner didn't have to sacrifice. The drive caddy stays in the bay nice and snug and is easy to remove as well.

I'm running a 100 GB 7200 drive as my main drive and a 160 GB 5400 in the bay. Have also run two 100 GB drives in the second caddy. So much room that I'm not sure what to do with it all.
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post #538 of 551
3/13/07 at 1:46pm
I know what u mean 240 total gigs (well more like 228) and only about 40 of them used.......time to rip my band of brothers series and store it on my laptop
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post #539 of 551
3/13/07 at 2:42pm
Be careful on which caddy you select on ebay. The first one I ordered had a different back connector and would not fit in the bay correctly. Got the correct one from the same guy though. Good trader IMO.

But the new one had a problem that I see on other pics of people that have them installed... the drive bay was made for IBM thinkpads and the cosmetic cover does not fit properly in the bay of the Dell's. You can either shave the left side down a bit which works nicely, or remove it altogether and have the side open air which does help keep the drive cooler. I did modify my cover for show purposes.

You can install an OS to the new drive just fine. The drive runs full speed on the secondary ATA channel. With a D/Dock added and a D/bay DVD-RW, you have quite a formidable system... Throw a couple of new 200gb drives in and..... sorry i'm drooling

The bad part: Battery life. Now you have 2 hungry mouths to feed.

Think his ebay name is it-glasses if you want to get one.
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post #540 of 551
3/13/07 at 3:15pm
can you actually read the temperature of the second HD?
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