SSD upgrade to 9.00mm Caddy?

[rex6rocks]

I have opted the caddy option to upgrade to an ssd.

If you see the HP manual for this model, it says there should be m.2 sata support but my laptop has no such thing, I confirmed it by opening the back panel.

The problem is that my laptop has a 9.0mm disk drive, not 9.5mm.

My question is that, I have found some caddies that advertise as 9.0mm.

Is this legit or am i going to get a 9.5mm drive caddy instead?

And as my laptop has a 9.0mm drive should I go for a 7mm caddy if there’s no such thing as a 9.0mm caddy?

Please advice. Any help would be highly appreciated.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

9 mm caddies are a thing. They are not as common as 9.5 but I can tell you from painful experience a 9.5 will not slide into a 9 mm opening. A 7 mm caddy if there were such a thing would rattle around loose and you would need to shim it which looks bad. Generally you want to put the faster SSD inside the laptop and the HDD in the DVD caddy. 

https://www.amazon.in/Toogoo-Universal-Bracket-DVD-ROM-Optical/dp/B07HC8NH4V/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=DVD...

Please ask any more questions but accept as solution if this is the info you needed. 

[rex6rocks]

Thank you for sharing. They are so uncommon that I didn't believe it existed even when my own laptop has a 9mm drive.

I going to go buy a caddy and update here how it works. It's, im going to insert the ssd in the place where my hdd is now and the hdd in the caddy.