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Review on Nimitz 2nd HDD SSD Hard Drive Caddy: Perfectly Compatible πŸ” with Lenovo Thinkpad T420 T430 T510 T520 T530 W510 W520 W530 by Carla Williams

Revainrating 5 out of 5

If your system doesn't recognize it, read this.

First let me say that the caddy was purchased to store a 200GB SSD for my Lenovo T430, i5-3320M. I'm running Windows 10 with "BIOS" updated from Lenovo's website, version 2.79 released on February 27, 2019. Without upgrading the RAM to 16GB, that's headroom. My first attempt to install a new SSD was unsuccessful. The hard drive was not recognized and the device was not visible, so there is no way to update the driver. I went to the Revain forums and reviews and read about failed devices. If you have this problem, don't return it just yet! I found out that the problem was not with the caddy but with the SSD. Try the following: 1) On Win10, go to the search bar at the bottom right and type disk management. 2) Find your SSD, which you thought wasn't there, it might be labeled "Disk 1". DO NOT PUSH WITH "Disk 0" or "Primary"! 3) Right-click the Disk 1 box and format the disk. (Again, do not format your OS or do so if you are unsure!) 4) Name your drive, choose a drive letter (I chose X or Y or Z), choose NTFS, "Default" allocation size and perform quick formatting. This should make your new SSD usable as a drive. Overall this is a great device that does exactly what I wanted it to do. I would buy again if needed.

Pros
  • Large selection
Cons
  • No performance