Replacing optical drive on laptop

timberflake · 6 January 2013 at 2:34PM

I want to upgrade the optical drive on my Lenovo G570 to a Blu Ray drive and was looking at this:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/sony-bc-5550h-01-6x-sata-slim-blu-ray-reader-dvdplus-rw-burner-optical-drive

Are the sizes of laptop optical drives standard? In other words, is there any question as to whether this will fit my Lenovo?

-TangleFoot- · 6 January 2013 at 2:59PM

timberflake wrote: »

Are the sizes of laptop optical drives standard?

The drive itself should be the same shape, though the drive's faceplate (bezel) may not be.

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timberflake · 6 January 2013 at 3:56PM

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

The drive itself should be the same shape, though the drive's faceplate (bezel) may not be.

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Presumably I could just take the faceplate off the current one & fit it to the new one though?

Handsome90 · 6 January 2013 at 4:00PM

Just curious, are you connecting your laptop to your TV?

timberflake · 6 January 2013 at 4:05PM

Handsome90 wrote: »

Just curious, are you connecting your laptop to your TV?

No, watching Blu Ray movies on my laptop, why do you ask?

-TangleFoot- · 6 January 2013 at 4:21PM

timberflake wrote: »

Presumably I could just take the faceplate off the current one & fit it to the new one though?

Correct. Be careful - they can be quite fragile.

timberflake · 6 January 2013 at 4:59PM

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Correct. Be careful - they can be quite fragile.

Thanks for that, will order it tonight!

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