Reddit mentions of Zheino SSD HDD Caddy 9.5mm Aluminum 2nd Hard Disk Drive Caddy Case Adapter for Universal Laptop CD/DVD-ROM Optical Bay (9.5MM)

Something like this, Amazon link

The specs are gonna work great but Lenovo laptops ship with bloatware that re-installs itself after a clean Windows install. Many would view this as a rootkit.

I have a 6200U, 16GB RAM, 250GB 850EVO SSD and it works for me doing the same. I would absolutely recommend an SSD though. I use EZdrummer with Roland edrums (also use REAPER) and there's not a single stutter anymore on lowest possible buffer settings (2.4ms latency), whereas the harddrive would cause the audio to crackle under heavy IO load.

With the SSD the main issue is space for projects. You should install your OS and plugin libraries etc on the SSD for performance and then back up your projects to an external HDD/cloud service when you're done with them.

Or, you could use a DVD caddy adapter for a large HDD to store/backup old project data.

Il t430 ha il lettore cd/dvd? Se si (edit: ho controllato, si), puoi sostituirlo con una roba del genere.


Il t430 ha uno slot sotto la tastiera, che se vuoi rimuovere/sostituire devi rimuovere. Quindi puoi sicuramente fare 8+8=16, però ci devi lavorare. Quella interna è da 4, quindi ihmo basta e avanza una da 4 o 8gb esterna (nello sportellino).


Io ho comprato un solo ricondizionato, un t440 su amazon. Perfetto, nessun problema di nessun tipo, mi avessero detto che è nuovo ci avrei creduto. Sono peraltro molto soddisfatto dell'acquisto. Se secondo te è troppo rotto e hai preso uno di quelli di amazon, valuta se vale la pena cercare di restituirlo (non è immediato perchè il venditore non è amazon, ma credo tu possa comunque, finchè non lo smonti).



EDIT: oddio, se l'hai appena comprato ASPETTA. Se smonti probabilmente ti cada la garanzia (che se lo hai preso su amazon è di un anno), quindi prima valuta per bene se funziona tutto e se lo vuoi tenere

There are a few of options I can think of:

• Old laptop with 2nd hard drive on the ODD bay, using an adapter such as this
  
• Older Raspberry Pi with a pair of USB hard drives, or the new one if you need USB3. There are a couple of SBC that can serve this purpose but Raspberry is fairly cheap and available
  
• Second hand Synology Diskstation or ready-made NAS
  
  On the software side, I'd probably go with OpenMediaVault or Rockstor.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01B77AXGA/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1497836045&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=sata+to+dvd&dpPl=1&dpID=51ceb3bEpmL&ref=plSrch

you have no idea of what you are talking about.

Amazon sells loads of caddies to put drive in optical bay, and caddies to convert dvd drive to be an external drive.

No extra power or sata connector is needed.

eg

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VicTsing-12-7mm-Universal-DVD-ROM-Optical/dp/B00LIQOOB6/ref=pd_sim_147_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51WK5xK-zdL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=GFNS6DRST8QXB5VFM7GB

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-Universal-Laptop-DVD-ROM-Optical/dp/B01B77AXGA/ref=sr_1_8?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1467982155&sr=1-8&keywords=hdd+drive+caddy

https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-Slimline-Optical-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B003GSCS2G/ref=sr_1_10?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1467982210&sr=1-10&keywords=dvd+caddy

Done it on several laptops including one I am using now.

I did this in my Lenovo T430, and it was easy as pie. Can't say for sure with your model, but something like [this](http://www.amazon.com/Zheino-Adapter-Universal-DVD-ROM-Optical/dp/B01B77AXGA?ie=UTF8&keywords=dvd drive hard disk caddy&qid=1464725382&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1) might work.

Many laptops will either have a push release or a single screw holding the old DVD drive in. With mine it's a press of a button and it slides out.