Dell E6420 Caddy

Enhance Your Dell E6420 With a 2.5-Inch HDD or SSD Caddy

Additional hard disk drives allow you even more storage space, and adding a solid-state drive gives you blazing read and write speeds. If you have a Dell Latitude E6420 laptop that wasn't designed to accommodate an additional 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, then make room for another with a Dell E6420 caddy, which uses the modular bay for the optical drive and adapts it for an additional storage drive. You may find the following information useful as you search for what you want on eBay.

No, it does not. What matters is the form factor. All drives suitable for this Latitude are 2.5 inches, and all Dell E6420 caddies accommodate this form factor. Therefore, any standardized 2.5-inch drive should fit the caddy and work when the laptop is turned on.

Yes, they should. As long as the drive uses the 2.5-inch form factor and has an appropriate height, whether it's 5, 7 or 9.5 millimeters high, then the brand, model, and so forth of the hard disk drive or solid-state drive shouldn't matter.

You have two options, which include:

• Connecting an external optical drive: You could use an external optical drive connected via USB or a similar port.
• Swapping the Dell E6420 caddy: Additionally, it's possible to swap the caddy and optical drive as needed, but it does not support hot swapping.

The caddy you choose must support the Dell E6420, but be mindful that the optical drive is not proprietary but rather a drive you can use across many different brands and models. Many of the Dell E6420 caddy models available support a broad range of Latitude laptops and some even support non-Latitude laptops and even some non-Dell laptops, too.

A Dell E6420 2.5-inch HDD or SSD caddy or tray is hardware used to facilitate a Dell Latitude E6420 SSD upgrade or HDD upgrade. These Latitudes shipped with a 2.5-inch HDD, and that compartment is an appropriate size for either a 2.5-inch HDD replacement or a 2.5-inch SSD upgrade. If, however, you want a second HDD/SDD, there's no second compartment, and the optical drive modular bay must fit for that instead. A caddy hosts either a 2.5-inch SSD or HDD but is sized for the bay and slides in and clicks in as a CD-ROM, a DVD-ROM, or another optical drive would.