How to replace CD drive with HDD (no caddy required) - DIY

[@Adrian2140]

My man basically created a HDD caddy outta scrap. Congrats for taking the time to look into the pinouts and wiring. Cheap and the planet loves you.

[@silencedmonkeyyy]

Sometimes people don't understand how hardworking and patient electronic engineers are.

[@unlokia]

Being one myself, I concur.

[@martinhryniewiecki]

If there is ever a zombie apocalypse - I am going with this guy. We will need to build survival tech from scrap...

[@erock.steady]

omfg FINALLY - a "how-to make" what you want... that doesn't begin with "go to buy" what you want. many thanks i still can't believe my luck. oh btw i'll be adapting this to make it an external usb drive. thanks again.

[@chamikasandamali7621]

I think i should buy a caddy , that way my dvd drive is safe too

[@asutoshsahoo1883]

😂😂😂

[@Drowning_India]

Agreed bro👍

[@ludadoyt8317]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lanvasquez]

True to that brother! And it will be cheaper than buying a dvd drive.

[@christianmino4073]

this is insane. I'm using this so I don't have my 2.5 Inch HDD dangling in my PC case. But it got real crazy when I realized you were actually doing this in a laptop and not just using an old laptop HDD in your desktop.

[@Hypermegacron]

Thank you so much brilliant, this is exactly what i was searching. i think you are the only one who did this on youtube. i'm very interested to this kind of work, thanks again

[@rionneangelougale5363]

Bro, you nailed my interest!! I'm quite fascinated by computer architectures and stuffs like these to build my own equipments. Good job and keep the passion alive!

[@johnhunter9005]

I LIKE YOUR CREATIVITY I WISH IT WASNT SO FAST PACED THO. I HAVE ACCESS TO SO MUCH OLD COMPUTER PARTS SO I DONT LIKE TO BUY NEW IF I CAN MAKE OR MODIFY IT MYSELF. ONLY THING IM A NEWB, BUT IM LEARNING WATCHING ALL THESE VIDEOS THANKS KEEP UP HE GOOD WORK

[@marioeagle93]

That's a great idea! Even though I would just buy the mini sata to full sata adapter and use it directly to both save time and money. But still great video!

[@caroxic-tokyo506]

This would be cheaper... It is liturally for free, if you have a old broken drive. The alternative costs

[@KennethIsrael_aiikendoit]

holy moly this is very useful, but I'm quite scared of doing this

[@shanetully2861]

everyone is nervous their first time just relax

[@oozarusama]

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[@sugalisreelatha3550]

Yes bro

[@rivw3]

It's an excellent video. I tried it and it works perfect . Thanks so much l, now my laptop is working with two disks

[@BIG77BUBBA]

At First I thought I was watching a Tweaker mutilated computer parts. Since I turned on auto play. I get some interesting videos coming popping up. ome entertaining some not. I know you can buy the kit but I’m a try this way first. After watching it three times I wish you would slow your time laps. Wouldn’t care if it was longer video. GOOD VIDEO!!!!!

[@scraptech4736]

Thanks for your praising comment! I'll keep your suggestions in mind for the upcoming videos!

[@JohanUntung-bs9mn]

Terima kasih banyak ,saya lagi butuh ini kebetulan anda membuat tutorial,izin saya telah download skemanya,tq bro,Gbu

[@Mr.Legend_9]

This is an engineering level

[@Hypermegacron]

for those who want to follow the steps with less speed, you can go to the settings of the player and slow down the speed as you desire

[@christianmino4073]

yes that is indeed how the speed button works... You can even make it faster! ...

[@sufiyastory6498]

Please make laptop cd rom ide connection to sata hdd diagram.

[@yandix2000]

Here is real DIY. Bravo bravissima.

[@frankteirlynck5777]

interesting and certainly useful

[@hallowelt9296]

Nice but why dont use a serial cable cut in half?

[@ronziopilato]

Goated video

[@jigneshkumarahir3436]

Nice work👍

[@scraptech4736]

Thanks!

[@unlokia]

I can bypass a lot of these steps, since I have an SSD caddy from my old laptop (HP ProBook 6460b) and I’m trying to put it in my Lenovo ThinkPad L540, but the caddy is too thick. However, the interface board is the same, so I take that out of my caddy and (hopefully) it will mount in place where the optical drives current interface board is. 😊

[@rupertmurdoch469]

Great job man!... Good music too..

[@bassfear_9952]

this helped me increase my storage by 500 gb drive all tho I have one free nvme spot but I also had an hdd drive laying around and decided to go for it

[@mr.random2297]

Masterful

[@prasenbkk2457]

Wow excellent for your video.....myself will pay 3 USD for Caddy tray

[@sagaming2902]

Thanks it worked

[@testedispositivowhiteempty6314]

só faltou soldar o GND na transmissão dos DADOS ,mas se funcionou tá valendo

[@arcummalitiae7358]

Someone : i think i should buy a hdd/ssd caddy no one Engineer : I have a great idea

[@smimoib949]

Thank you Brother you are the best 👌🏽💯

[@Emranrajaee]

Good job thank you.

[@bacilluscereus1299]

Drat this laptop optical drive lays out teh internal PCB in such a way to make it difficult to fit the HDD,

[@a.i.iseverywhere8466]

but how to connect the laptop dvd drive to a desktop PC ? do you have the schematics ? thank you

[@buvabu]

Does this work if the connector in the mainboard is IDE and my HDD SATA?

[@chopsterbreezie4306]

Interesting, but i think i will use wires instead (desktop connectors)

[@barbaracla2]

moreover wire 18awg or higher? sorry I would have a try on this but of course I have not experience at all

[@bassfear_9952]

took me two days to make my own like this but it was my first time ever to replace original parts by soldering wires for two different connectors and it works I even had some files left on it and everything showed up in the pc no problem but my only downside is that the pc shows that the hdd is bad and can fail

[@amitaniket5472]

Do caddy has an indicator light just like dvd drive?

[@Aresmusic.official]

Just up! What happened in the end?!

[@silk2679]

I wil try thx for the ideea

[@ktechone4120]

Thank bro. It’s work💯

[@DJSHASHISIWAN]

please make hp compacq c700 Cd Rom connector to sata hdd connector daigram.

[@TOSStarTrek]

Did it on an Acer PC as well. Many of them are not much more than laptops.

[@Jhow_silva_r]

Como fazer com a saída USB 2.0 ?

[@elsondeSaantana123d]

thx man

[@cillywood2332]

Bro I'll go with caddy

[@paul.alarner6410]

lets see tou do it with a 50 pin JAE connector type lappy drive,that would be pretty impressive!!

[@narcisnelutu421]

Nu functioneaza,nu recunoaste bios unitatea hdd,trebuie facuta o conversie! It does not work, it does not recognize the hdd drive bios, a conversion must be made!

[@ArissonMercinova]

Unique solution, but maybe I bought a caddy

[@thegaminguchiha8570]

Man, just get a caddy, these are too complicated, and if u want to use cd drive externally? , get a usb to slim sata (7+6 pin) cable

[@Hypermegacron]

💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@kostaskolomitroushs2813]

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

[@obeadeah]

why not just aim the hdd into dvd hole and push it into the connector isn't that faster ? anyway many thanks for your efforts

[@bassfear_9952]

connectors are different and the needed pins wont line up

[@TechWyper]

Wow!! It's so easy😂😂😂

[@barbaracla2]

can it be done with a sata adapter and connect the CD/DVD from a broken laptop? just to avoid or reduce work with soldering (I have no solder kit at the moment) and if not can you advise what kind of cable to buy? thanks

[@amazingfijiisland6366]

Oh my god its to hard.. i liked your work and video... But compare to simple buy new 2 tb drive or buy new cady....

[@Veilands]

why .. ?

[@rajeshsuralkar611]

we should buy cady because wasting cd drive for just 200 to 300 rupees is worst

[@umernasir96]

pain in the ass if u mess up when taking of power and data

[@taivas7216]

just get a fking caddy man, 5 bucks... 5

[@patrickjosephmarayag826]

Id just buy a caddy.

[@harekrishna151]

Use SATA adaptor

[@thallipolicousins1837]

I definitely buy a new caddy from market.. it is better buy an new one instead go to a mental hospital..

[@chandan1015]

THING YOU MUST AVOID

[@vincentleeadams]

Between $6 and $9 on eBay you can get the Caddy without going through all of this.

[@suvabarui4805]

I will prefer to buy a $5 good caddy .

[@00iq]

It damaged my hdd💔💔💔

[@flippinn]

or just buy a caddy😭

[@lebiantobatara4706]

This one well looks more complicated, this is not for newby, there's too many things that I don't understand, more possibly to fail 🤣🤣

[@John-gm8ty]

it's like $6 for a caddy on aliexpress, SO much easier than all this.

[@Karicize]

yea but if you are into this stuf ( soldering , repairing ) and you have some spare parts that you dont need why not build it?

[@John-gm8ty]

@@Karicize super lazy lol

[@ajithkumarece889]

250 rs caddy

[@kevinmagsy0312]

Hahaha you can do this if u have many broken laptop, so you can use the female adapter embeded from the sata data and power of the board.. and mod it to the dvdrom, if not muh better to buy the adapter because its to cheap

[@hichambendjidztlemcen]

pour 10 euro 24h de travail non non ton tuto il es pas fiable mon amie

[@junereycagatinbaang1110]

Hahaha. What a joke!! This video is hilarious. Why would someone do this? Just buy a caddy and youre done.

[@vishalpatil6578]

No thanks I'll just buy caddy

[@robertmesina4809]

Caddy is just like 2 dollars lmao

[@raheelafridi]

ohh too much hard and time west

[@prayify5248]

i do not trust this video LMFAO

[@bineshkapali]

I’ll buy a caddy🙄

[@heekaru3111]

Yea better to buy a caddy

[@eduardohuratdo3795]

Oh yea very easy job ?

[@user-qi1gc5lj7p]

why Diy ? you can buy this on Any Online Store Easy and cheap

[@sherwinrienzo2425]

Ohhhh god a HDD caddy just costs $3 usd

[@CoolDude-vc2fl]

You know, Caddy is really cheap. This is more expensive as you have destroyed you dvd drive which is more expensive than the caddy and also you have wasted yours and our time.

[@chrisliddiard725]

or you could just buy a cheap cdrom caddy.... lol