I could keep my 500 GB hard drive for data storage and replace the MacBook Pro’s optical drive with an SSD which I’d use as the boot drive. The optical drive isn’t important to me — I rarely use CDs ...

Hitachi-LG Data Storage has come up with a novel idea that combines physical storage with an optical drive. The HyDrive is capable of reading CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs but also has an SSD drive ...

For my hybrid setup I chose the kit with the 115GB Mercury Elite SSD. Optical-drive enclosure ... When assembled, the data doubler fits nicely in the empty optical drive bay, holding the SSD upgrade.

It’s a fact that no one uses optical drives anymore and so why not replace the one in your late-model MBP with something a bit more useful like an SSD.It doesn’t really seem that hard as long ...

Kioxia showed off its latest optical SSD technology at Computex 2025. According to the storage giant, this new solution offers several key advantages over conventional electrically connected SDDs ...

The kit allows owners of the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini to upgrade the hard drive and replace it with a solid-state drive (SSD) from OWC. The kit comes with OWC’s 2.5-inch Mercury ...

The SSD & Hard Disk Drive Cloning Kit features: Support for Corsair SSDs and SATA notebook hard drives Compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and OS X® ...

You won’t be able to add an optical drive to your new Mac Mini (not without some extensive Dremel work at least), but with this kit from iFixit, you can at least add a second hard drive, or even ...

Hitachi announced a new optical drive, a Hybrid SATA III which combines the optical technology with SSD. Details are non-existent, but combining an optical drive and with an SSD drive and you’re ...

Despite carrying a $250 MSRP, we've frequently found the PNY XLR8 SSD 1TB Gaming Kit retailing at around the $159.99 mark which is more in line with other PS5-ready Gen 4.0 drives.

The Pi-Desktop Kit add-on board includes a connection for an mSATA SSD drive. I am going to look at adding one, and using it for simple disk storage expansion and for booting the Raspberry Pi.

The Adaptec kit consisted of an 8x PCIe controller and the MaxIQ a single SSD, an Intel SSDSA2SH064G1GC SLC 2.5-inch 3Gbps SATA drive. The MaxIQ kit is available separately from the controller ...