chenyangmSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin 2.5 inch Hard Disk Case Enclosure Box White for Laptop

Why did you pick this product vs others?:These are my goto IDE enclosure for retro Thinkpads. Generally works in most retro machines using pretty bog standard cheap MSATA drives. A handy solution when IDE drives are becoming more difficult to come by. Good value for money.

There are different "colors" for this product. I got the "black" which is actually a white mSata to IDE adapter. It looks like the reviews for entirely separate products all get grouped together. This review is of the "color" that allows for adding a mSata drive to a laptop IDE connector.It works great. I had no problems installing or setting it up. Everything fit and aligned properly. I was able to replace an aging laptop harddrive with a SSD using this. With vintage computers you have to be careful about hard drive size compatibility but I had no problems. I had initially thought that the white cover looked 3d printed but up close I don't believe it was.I don't have any benchmarks on speed. Subjectively, I thought this would boost performance more than it did. However, it could be the SSD itself, or more likely, due to the IDE bus. So I cannot blame the product here. But be aware that this might not be a magic speed boost.Overall I am happy with it. There aren't a lot of options for this kind of upgrade so it is great that this exists.

Works really well and has excellent data speed.Load an operating system and then clone it to other builds. Watch faster than installation and setting up drivers and configuration on each machine. You can also set these up for used drives and make PE drives for troubleshooting and testing.

This device is dangerously poorly built. I used it in a thinkpad T43 with a transcend 128gb msata drive. It was flaky from the start and the windows drivers were a pain to have to slipstream into the installer... once that was done, I used the device for no more than 8 hours before my drive just disappeared. Was not detected ever again. I pulled the device out and opened it up and it was partially melted, the drive is now dead, and there is reflowed solder and some flux melted all over the board, where it definitely was not previously. avoid it.

I bought this unit to replace a faulty MSATA to PATA adapter that I'd purchased some time ago, the one that looks like it was thrown together in a day. I needed it to add an SSD to a ThinkPad x41, which requires a 3.3v drive, and adapters that support that were limited to the aforementioned adapter until this unit came around, so naturally I snapped one up.When it arrived, I was quick to install it into my x41 after flipping the switch to 3.3v (the 5v option will be useful if I ever need to reuse this), only to find out that with the casing installed, it wouldn't fit. Upon further examination, I found that the standoffs for the screws were just a little too short, causing the IDE pins to be out of alignment when the adapter had the casing on it. Installing it bare resolved this issue, and the unit works fine aside from this, but it's not ideal seeing as how I can't install it into the laptop's drive caddy. Again, other than that, the unit works fantastically. The speeds are excellent compared to the 4200 RPM 1.8 inch drive that the laptop came with, and it's a nicely put together unit.

The Mission: Replace old HDD with an SSD and upgrade to a 64bit OS. Device: eMachines laptop, model M6811. The CPU is an AMD 64bit capable model 3800+ mobile chip.I used this to replace the old worn out IDE HDD in an eMachines laptop from 2004. I installed a Teamgroup 256GB M.2 SSD (model MS30) inside the enclosure and put it into my laptop. Was recognized by the bios just fine but then I ran into an unexpected problem. The laptop has such old hardware inside that it doesn't have USB support in the bios. Which means I could only use the CD/DVD Optical drive to install a new operating system. The only OS's I have on disk are Windows XP 32bit & 7 64bit. I ended up using my main PC, which has an optical drive, and I burned Linux wattOS onto a disc (haven't burned a disc in at least a decade) and was able to put a low demand OS onto my trusty old eMachines laptop. The laptop only has 1.25GB of ram so windows 7 used too much resources to be usable. wattOS 64bit is only using 300-ish MB of memory and now it runs faster than it ever has and is once again "usable". My hardware will only recognize 128GB of the 256GB M.2. So be aware of that and maybe only buy an M.2 SSD with 128GB capacity.This little project took me, a very frustrating, day and a half to come up with a solution. This is not how I was hoping things would turn out. It's NOT the fault of the product. The adapter worked perfectly. I didn't realize the limitations of my devices hardware. So, be sure your device can utilize the USB sockets before hand. You can be sure of this by taking your current HDD out and booting into bios to see if USB functionality is available. My eMachines has USB functionality only through the OS drivers. Just be aware. I'm sure there is a work around but, I'm just not tech savvy enough to figure it out . . . yet. When I do figure it out, I'll update this review. Thank you for reading my review.

I used one of these to replace the hard drive in a G4 Mac mini. Installation was about as easy as could be expected, given the target, and a freshly downloaded Mac OS X installation DVD got it running faster than ever with twice the storage of the original hard drive (used this SSD with it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TYGQJ45).