retrofitting the mSATA interposer into an E7440?

Hi all, Thanks for your help - I read this thread and now am the proud owner of an E7440 with both a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.

The parts HH0YC and FCN4M are exactly the ones you need. The Western Digital WD 1 TB 2.5-inch hard drive (7mm thick) does fit perfectly.

Note the only other thing you may need is a screw! The plastic cage which does nothing but fill the empty HDD slot only have 3 screws and you need 4 for the new caddy.

 

[QUOTE=" One end of the cable had a very short set of bare parallel connecting "wires" exposed, but the other's bare conduction section was fairly long. After a lot of thought, I decided to cut half a millimetre off the end, and this made the bulge much much better. I took another 0.5mm whisker off the end and now the bulge was quite reasonable, enough that it could be displaced to the edge of the bay..[/QUOTE]
I am running into the same problem with the bulging cable. I tried to install a traditional 2.5" HDD into my E7440, and my admiration for the laptop hardware and design quality quickly evaporated.
Did you happen to take pictures of the cutting the cable "operation", when you did that? Did you have to take the whole laptop apart to reach the underside, where the cables are actually connected in the mother board? I am scared of pulling the cables out, let alone cut them to make them short, as this is my company provided laptop and I don't want to take it apart completely. So I want to get a feel of what it took to get that cable reconnected, once you had cut it?
Thanks a bunch!

 

Trimming the cable sounds a lot worse than it actually was. I did have to dismantle my E7440 a long way, but it's worked fine (using it right now!) to get to the cable.

I used a super sharp pair of scissors, well away from the laptop to prevent whiskers falling or blowing in. Just have to be sure to cut cable at right angles. It was quite straight-forward.

The whole process took about one and a quarter hours, with me being *very* slow and steady. Use an ice cube tray or muffin tray to store screws as you go. Luckily there aren't many variations in screw size. Now I know how easy it is, I could do it in under 40 minutes from start to finish.

These days with high capacity SSDs around I probably wouldn't bother, I'd just fit a big mSATA drive. Unless of course I wanted to add a WWAN adaptor.