HP Personal Media Drive Bay

mercman1969

I have a spare slot in my HP desktop
It states on the cover personal media drive bay

Am i correct in stating that this allows you to slot in a Hard Drive without the need to open up the machine

If so, where can these be bought from for the best price and are they referred to as personal media drives?

davb

I guess it's one of these, but they seem to be discontinued in most places.

Lakeuk

If your spare slot is 5.252 size then you could replace it with one of these, then you just slide in any 3.5" SATA like you would an video tape

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/icybox-trayless-ib-168sk-b-sata-to-sata-hdd-black-colour

googler

So, there'll be a unique connector in there that ONLY matches up to the HP portable drives....?

And the OP will have to open up the PC and remove this connector in order to reveal a standard 5.25" drive bay?

beekay1943

There are a few of these Personal Media Drives on eBay at the moment at quite reasonable costs

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=hp+personal+media+drive&_sacat=16178&_dmpt=UK_Computing_HardDrives_RL&_dmd=1&_odkw=&_osacat=16178&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313