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Aleratec

Aleratec mSATA SSD to High Speed 9.5mm 2.5" IDE SSD Drive Converter Adapter with Frame

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Convert Full Size mSATA SSD to High Performance, No Noise, Low Power 44 Pin 2.5 inch IDE SSD
Supports SATA I, SATA II and SATA III (6Gbps) mSATA SSD
Includes 9.5mm height 2.5 inch drive metal frame with 8 mounting holes and 4 HDD screws
Transparent to the operating system and no driver required. Supports any OS like Windows, Mac and Linux

Aleratec mSATA SSD to High Speed 9.5mm 2.5" IDE SSD Drive Converter Adapter with Frame

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Aleratec's mSATA SSD to High Speed 9.5mm 2.5" IDE SSD Drive Converter Adapter with Frame provides you the best solution for fast speed mSATA SSD to function as a normal standard 9.5mm 2.5 inch IDE SSD Drive with high performance. - Latch type mSATA connector on board, no need the screw to retain mSATA SSD - Marvell 88SA8052 inside - 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support mSATA SSD max 144,115,188GB - Compliant with Serial ATA 2.6 - Jumper setting support IDE Master, Slave and Cable Select Modes

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Product Dimensions

3.5 x 2.5 x 2 inches

Item Weight

3.2 ounces

Shipping Weight

3.2 ounces

Manufacturer

Aleratec

ASIN

B00HZT4CFS

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20 customer reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars

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#179 in Computers & Accessories > Data Storage > External Solid State Drives

Date first available at Amazon.com

January 22, 2014

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Convert your IDE laptop from a hard disk to Solid State Disk

ByRichon August 6, 2014

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For those of you who aren't tekkies, there are basically 2 interfaces for laptop drives: IDE and SATA.IDE drives have two rows of pins, and SATA has a modular connector. IDE pins on a laptop drive are not the same as the IDE pins on a desktop drive, but the SATA connections are the same on both. IDE has not been used in laptops for several years, and they have pretty much stopped making IDE laptop drives. So if you want to keep your old laptop, you pretty much have to convert it to SATA SSD.

I used this converter with a Crucial M500 240GB mSATA SSD to convert a laptop from IDE spinning disk to SATA SSD.

The great thing about this converter is that it fits perfectly where a regular IDE laptop drive will fit and the holes match up. So you can take out your IDE drive and put this into whatever bracket your laptop came with and it should work fine.

Of course, it is preferable to have a regular SSD drive, but if you are trying to get a few more years out of your laptop that has an IDE connection, then this is a good way to do it.

You have two basic choices to get your stuff from your old drive to the new. You will either need to image your old drive to an external hard drive, install the SSD, and restore the image. Or you can backup your data, reinstall your operating system and programs, and restore your data.

I looked a long time for a solution of this type, and this device fits the purpose perfectly.

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meaning you have to rely on garbage collection that is found on most SSDs

ByJameson April 12, 2015

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Works with a 13 year old PowerBook G4 Titanium. I decided to use an SSD over another PATA hard drive since 2.5 IDE hard drives are getting scarce. Also, a SSD gives a noticeable improvement in performance for an old computer even though it's limited to slower speeds with no TRIM support in some cases, meaning you have to rely on garbage collection that is found on most SSDs. Since SSD prices continues to fall, it's a worthy replacement for an aging hard drive.

This converter was very easy to install. Take off the bottom cover of the Powerbook, unscrew the screws that holds the hard drive, remove the HD ribbon cable, install the mSATA (I used an ADATA SP310 64 GB) into the converter, transfer the screws from the old HD to the SSD bracket, reattach the HD cable and bottom cover and reinstall the OS. Now, it only takes about 50 seconds to boot into Mac OS X Leopard and 1 minute for Mac OS 9 from chime to desktop. Note that the PowerBook G4s are limited to 66 mbps (on the Titanium models) and 100 mbps for the Aluminum models. Also, the VGA models Powerbook G4s can only use SSDs less than 128 GB.

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A must for nobody...but the perfect product for those that want.

ByChristopher Andreaeon April 17, 2015

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I had a rather old laptop with a Sempron processor and plain DDR memory that I decided to test the limits of. After upgrading the memory to 2GB I felt I wasn't getting the full benefit of the extra ram due to a hard drive bottleneck from the OEM 4200RPM disk. I had a 90GB mSATA drive laying about after upgrading my father-in-law's Intel NUC to a larger storage capacity. I was really quite surprised to find that this product existed and decided to give it a try...something I'm quite glad I did. Alongside the memory upgrade, this adapter has allowed me to take a 10 year old laptop and bring it into the here and now. Fantastic niche product.

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It has one job and does it

ByAmazon Customeron November 29, 2015

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This device is less about gaining a performance boost, and more about using more modern parts to keep legacy hardware alive for reasons, including the fact that new IDE laptop drives are much harder to find these days while mSATA drives are currently plentiful.

This worked with a Samsung 850 EVO 120GB in a PowerBook G3 that I've had since 2000. I was able to clone OSX and 9.2 onto it, and it boots up into either OS. There is a slight performance boost; although I think the IDE port remains the bottleneck, knocking the speed of the SSD down to 10% of its capacity.

This adapter also changes the 5V from the host system to 3.3V for the mSATA drive. I was initially worried about the mSATA pulling too much current, but the upper figure (1.7A for the EVO) is for when it's writing at full speed, something it will never really see when going through IDE.

In my initial testing, it worked fine with a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter and a USB enclosure, so I imagine this could also be used to replace a standard 3.5" IDE drive as well. Just be mindful of the 137GB limit of older hardware (which is why I went with a 120GB).

Only drawback is that when installed, it's upside-down compared to the label-up orientation of most hard drives, so I have to completely remove this adapter if I want to change SSDs instead of just popping them in and out. But I guess it's not really meant for frequent change cycles. And for laptops where the drive is behind a cover held on by a dozen screws, it doesn't matter.

Point is, it works as advertised and I plan on getting more of these.

Update: I should have also mentioned that I chose the Aleratec model because it came equipped with the mounting plate to secure it properly. Even SSDs shouldn't flap around inside a laptop. Also Aleratec isn't kidding when they say "transparent to OS". The hard drive shows up in Apple's profiler as a Samsung 850 EVO.

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This adapter worked great in an older Toshiba Satellite Laptop (machine is nearly ...

ByTechGuyon November 24, 2014

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This adapter worked great in an older Toshiba Satellite Laptop (machine is nearly 10years old) wth a Crucial M500 120gb solid state drive. A much better option than going with the few questionable brand name IDE solid state drives out there if you are trying to update a machine that does not support SATA...

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Works Well

ByAlexon June 13, 2014

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This was used to update an old P4 laptop. It passes the TRIM command to the mSATA drive, which helps keep performance up. It was 100% compatible with the laptop. It was 3x faster than the old laptop drive. The laptop is now useable again.

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I am very pleased.

ByGregory Molineon September 11, 2014

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I purchased this along with a Plextor PX-256M6M 256GB MSATA from Newegg to upgrade my Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop, which originally had a PATA hard drive. I installed Windows 7, and everything works perfectly. Bootup is very fast as well as applications running very fast. I am very pleased.