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Yes, you can get rails for the drive, providing it has the screw holes in the right area. &nbsp;The rails are also used for 2.5&quot; media such as tape drives.<br />
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This is an ebay link, but shows you exactly what you are looking for<br />
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<a href="http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZIDEQ20laptopQ20adapterQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ" rel="ugc">http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZIDEQ20laptopQ20adapterQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ</a><br />
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Yes, you can get rails for the drive, providing it has the screw holes in the right area.  The rails are also used for 2.5" media such as tape drives.

This is an ebay link, but shows you exactly what you are looking for

http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZIDEQ20laptopQ20adapterQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ [http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZIDEQ20laptopQ20adapterQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ]




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it look like it will work perfectly.. but will i also need any adaptors or additional wiring beyond the kit that you mentioned? &nbsp;by the way, my computer is relatively new and does have an additional slot for the drive...
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it look like it will work perfectly.. but will i also need any adaptors or additional wiring beyond the kit that you mentioned?  by the way, my computer is relatively new and does have an additional slot for the drive...

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i am interested in installing an Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive with a 2.5 inch form factor into my dexktop dell xps 730 with a form factor of 3.5 inches (i think but never checked)... can this work? &nbsp;how do i do it?<br />
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thanks... Joe
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i am interested in installing an Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive with a 2.5 inch form factor into my dexktop dell xps 730 with a form factor of 3.5 inches (i think but never checked)... can this work?  how do i do it?

thanks... Joe

how to fit a 2.5 inch hard drive into a 3.5 inch desktop

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.