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I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W510. Currently I have a SSD 125GB hard drive in it, but that is too small for me.

Is it possible to replace my DVD drive with another SATA Hard Drive?

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You could replace your W510's optical drive with Lenovo's ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter III (Part # 43N3412) and a larger SATA hard drive.

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I replaced my optical drive with a SSD drive, using this method. It increased my battery life on the system by about 20%. The lower wattage of the SSD (less than 1w) helped a lot. The CDRom I think was a 5w power draw. –  djangofan Nov 15 '11 at 19:51

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