Upgrading my Optimus II 17"

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cloakedninjas

Member

• Mar 21, 2012

• #1

Bought myself one of these a few months back : http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusII/

Now I'm thinking of adding a 2nd HDD - Most likely an SSD to go with my 500Gb magnetic disk.

But when I opened the back of the laptop up the only space I could see for a HDD was already being used... Does my chasis support 2 HDDs?

 

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace

• Mar 21, 2012

• #2

Only at the expense of losing the DVD drive.

 

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cloakedninjas

Member

• Mar 21, 2012

• #3

Bummer

So if I had configured my laptop to have 2 HDDs and a DVD drive, what would have happened?

 

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace

• Mar 21, 2012

• #4

You would see this,
this laptop can only support one of the following combinations of hard drives/DVD/Blu-ray drives:

a) 1 x hard drive and 1 x DVD/Blu-ray drive;
b) 2 x hard drives and 0 x DVD/Blu-ray drives.

 

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cloakedninjas

Member

• Mar 21, 2012

• #5

Ok - thanks for the info

 

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El Wayneo

Silver Level Poster

• Mar 21, 2012

• #6

vanthus said:

Only at the expense of losing the DVD drive.

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thats not cool i phoned up and asked specifically this question and got told it supported two hard drives and the dvd.

can someone confirm this?

 

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jonny123

Bright Spark

• Mar 21, 2012

• #7

Yeh its true go on the optimus configuration and try selecting 2 hard drives and a dvd drive the message that vanthus will pop up when finishing the spec.One of the main reasons i went for a skyfire instead (Came today,But with no battery and the wrong charger-.-)

 

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace

• Mar 21, 2012

• #8

El Wayneo said:

thats not cool i phoned up and asked specifically this question and got told it supported two hard drives and the dvd.

can someone confirm this?

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I'm only going by the configurator,hopefully one of the PCS guys can clarify the issue.

 

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El Wayneo

Silver Level Poster

• Mar 21, 2012

• #9

Sorry for thread hijack btw.


Yeah just checked it on the site, hopefully its wrong as i went with the Optimus 2 as it was one of the few 17" that i could get that supported two drives, i already bought a 120GB SSD, and it was cheaper than the DELL XPS i was going to get.

 

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AndyL

Well-known member

• Mar 22, 2012

• #10

I believe that the Optimus 17" only supports 1 HDD if you have a DVD drive installed. It is the Vortex 17" that has space for 2 HDD's and a DVD drive.