What is caddy in HDD?

HDD Caddy is a special casing for a hard drive or SSD. Then inside this frame there is an adapter that connects the hard drive or SSD with the connector inside your laptop. HDD Caddy has the same dimensions of your optical drive thus allowing you to fully insert it inside the laptop.

Does caddy affect SSD speed?

That is , if you put an optical caddy in place of the CD drive and put a 2.5 inch HDD or SSD in it you still get SATA-III transfer speed and it can be bootable. But in even more cases the old rules apply: a 2.5 inch storage disk placed in an optical caddy will run at a lower transfer speed and will not be bootable.

Is HDD caddy good?

HDD Caddy makes it especially works 1) easy, no hassle with loose USB drives for more storage 2) mainly functional and safe built into the laptop with a number of options such as work and home separate, data and programs physically separated or a second boot disk that can serve as a failsafe.

Can I use 9.5 mm caddy for 9mm?

9 mm is not the same as 9.5 mm (a 9mm caddy will fit in a 9.5 mm slot but not vice versa) and means you would have to use a 7mm thick hard drive which is going to probably rule out a 3 TB and even most 2 TB 2.5 inch wide drives.

Is caddy HDD good?

Can you put SSD in HDD Caddy?

Inside the HDD Caddy you can insert a second hard drive or SSD. By installing the HDD Caddy and your hard drive or SSD, you’ll have a second drive inside your laptop.

Can I boot from SSD caddy?

It is possible when you have a 2nd HDD or SSD installed in your laptop (by using HDD Caddy) that you will have two different OS on two different phyiscal drives. If you have done this, then jump into Windows and enable Windows Boot Manager so you have a list of OS to select from when you start up your laptop.

What is the purpose of HDD kit?

A computer hard disk drive (HDD) is a non-volatile memory hardware device that controls the positioning, reading and writing of the hard disk, which furnishes data storage. Hard disk drives are commonly used as the main storage device in a computer.