Locate this sticker and gently peel it off the laptop.

Below the Asus N56 laptop there is a rubber sticker hiding a small lock-screw that locks the optical drive in its place. In this how-to you can read how to remove the optical drive from the Asus N56 laptop. Therefore you can use the Asus N56 HDD Caddy. You can still use the traditional HDD to increase the storage capacity besides having the SSD as your primary drive. That’s why N56 owners often switch the traditional HDD for a fast but small SSD like the Samsung 840 Pro or Crucial M4. Despise its high-spec components it is offered without the new fast solid state drives. It is also a great laptop for doing professional work like CAD design or for programming (if you prefer a Windows environment). Its aluminium and simplistic design combined with high-spec components like Intel Core i7 3610QM and GeForce GT650M makes it a great laptop for multimedia and pc-gaming. Currently the Asus N56 is one of the most popular (high-performance) laptop on the market.

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