Should've gotten a 500GB way back when, that 250 went fast...
After running out of space on the SSD (Samsung 840 250GB) I swapped my stock HDD for, I decided to add a second one (Samsung 840 EVO 250GB). But it wasn't as straightforward as it should've been.
The first SSD was in the "lower" position, the same spot the HDD occupied, and I never had any trouble with it. Using the iFixit dual hard drive kit, I added the second SSD to the "upper" position, but couldn't get it partitioned. iFixit swapped out the cable for an OEM cable but still no dice.
Here's where it gets odd, and where my question comes in. I swapped the hard drive positions, but then couldn't get my original hard drive to work (flashing folder with question mark). Then I swapped the cable positions. Looking at the motherboard from the bottom with the drive bays on top, the cable socket on the left should be for the lower drive. But the only way I could get both drives to work simultaneously was by forcing the upper drive's cable (the new, longer one) into the left socket.
Now both drives are working, but the cables are crisscrossed. There is a lot of tension on the original shorter cable for it to reach to right socket, and I'm not loving it.
Anyone else run into something similar? Anyone think it will be risky to have the cables stretched to the opposite sockets?
For reference, here is the default position for the original cable, and the socket to the right is the one I had to stretch it to:
After running out of space on the SSD (Samsung 840 250GB) I swapped my stock HDD for, I decided to add a second one (Samsung 840 EVO 250GB). But it wasn't as straightforward as it should've been.
The first SSD was in the "lower" position, the same spot the HDD occupied, and I never had any trouble with it. Using the iFixit dual hard drive kit, I added the second SSD to the "upper" position, but couldn't get it partitioned. iFixit swapped out the cable for an OEM cable but still no dice.
Here's where it gets odd, and where my question comes in. I swapped the hard drive positions, but then couldn't get my original hard drive to work (flashing folder with question mark). Then I swapped the cable positions. Looking at the motherboard from the bottom with the drive bays on top, the cable socket on the left should be for the lower drive. But the only way I could get both drives to work simultaneously was by forcing the upper drive's cable (the new, longer one) into the left socket.
Now both drives are working, but the cables are crisscrossed. There is a lot of tension on the original shorter cable for it to reach to right socket, and I'm not loving it.
Anyone else run into something similar? Anyone think it will be risky to have the cables stretched to the opposite sockets?
For reference, here is the default position for the original cable, and the socket to the right is the one I had to stretch it to: