Hi. I got this old 2001-vintage Dell Optiplex GX150, the one with the
black low-profile sized case and I am wondering if it will accept
laptop-sized DVD drives. The floppy and CD drives are slimeline. Is
this the same as laptop drives? Will the GP150 work with normal
laptop-CD/DVD drives, or are the Dell's proprietary?
"lyon_wonder" <lyon_wonder@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I got this old 2001-vintage Dell Optiplex GX150, the one with the
> black low-profile sized case and I am wondering if it will accept
> laptop-sized DVD drives. The floppy and CD drives are slimeline. Is
> this the same as laptop drives? Will the GP150 work with normal
> laptop-CD/DVD drives, or are the Dell's proprietary?
Yes, it will work with a laptop CD/DVD slimline drive, provided that the front
bezel of the drive has the same shape as the CD-ROM drive presently in the
system. Note that laptop optical drives often have a plastic front bezel that
conforms to the shape of the laptop chassis. Some bezels is simply too big for
the GX150 optical drive slot.
When you remove the CD-ROM drive from the GX150, you would then remove all of
the fittings used by Dell to adapt it to the GX150 low-profile chassis.
Thereafter, insert CD/DVD drive in chassis, and off you go. You might also
consider a GX240, GX260 or GX270 Pentium 4 motherboard, CPU and memory for the
system, though, if you want to view DVD movies, or burn DVDs. Even the fastest
GX150 CPU can't quite keep up with these more modern tasks... Ben Myers
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:01:01 -0600, lyon_wonder <lyon_wonder@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi. I got this old 2001-vintage Dell Optiplex GX150, the one with the
>black low-profile sized case and I am wondering if it will accept
>laptop-sized DVD drives. The floppy and CD drives are slimeline. Is
>this the same as laptop drives? Will the GP150 work with normal
>laptop-CD/DVD drives, or are the Dell's proprietary?
Dell Optiplex GX150 CD/DVD drives? 
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