Lenovo Y580 2nd drive (SSD)

Hello, I have a "problem" with my laptop Lenovo Y580.

What I want to do: Add to the default 1TB HDD (Seagate Momentus Spinpoint M8 1000GB, SATA II) another disk - SSD Crucial m4 SATA III. Notebook support SATA III.

For do this I must remove DVD-RW drive and insert SSD caddy. This is the problem. I don´t know if this caddy IB-AC642 is correct http://tinyurl.com/bww2zpy . I contacted Lenovo support, but they don´t know too.

I need to know next thing. Height of SSD - 7mm or standart 9,5mm? In the .PDF they write 6.35 cm - so correct is 7mm? Thanks for your responses, flint.

 

Most SSDs are available in the standard 9.5mm format. The 6.35cm has nothing to do with 7mm. Those are two different dimensions. Most 2.5" laptop drives are 69.85 mm × 100.2 mm × 9.5 mm. I don't know why it says 6.35 cm. I would get something like this where the specs are clearly defined. The only thing I can see that is 6.35 (or closest to it) is mounting hole to mounting hole (width wise).

 

Thanks. 6,35cm vs. 7mm - ok, i am dumb. I overlooked. I look at these informations again.

In the datasheet of Icy Box they wrote: Required space - Standard 12.7 mm DVD slot, HDD size - 1x 2.5" (6.35 cm). 6.35 cm is just convert 2,5", it´s the same.

My DVD-RW drive (DS-8A8SH) has these parameters: 128mm x 126mm x 12,7mm.

And SSD Crucial m4 has these specs.: 100.5 x 69.85 x 7mm ...2,5".

Both notebook and SSD supports SATA III.

This could be ok... What do you think?

 

The Y580 has a mSATA slot so this isn't needed.

Just snag a micro sata 120GB Mushkin Atlas SSD off newegg.com and be done with it.

:thumbsup:

 

The Atlas uses a Sandforce Controller. I would stay away from those until we have a couple of years of drives that do not consistently have the same issues popping up despite repeated firmware updates.

 

I solved it. Finally I bought, as I said, SSD Crucial m4 SATA III + caddy IB-AC642. Everything works great The difference between HDD and SSD is is apparent. SSD is booting Windows about 25 seconds. Even old HDD, what I have now instead of the DVD-RW, can boot the old Windows (but which I will delete). And from internal DVD-RW I have now external.