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

This pairs great with my PowerBook G4 running macOS 10.4 Tiger and seems to average 90MB/s on both sequential and random reads/writes with a Samsung mSATA drive. This is certainly a great value to breathe new life into a vintage laptoo

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.

Worked perfectly no problems at all

there were some stability issues when using with a usb3 adapter, but a change of port cured that (not uncommon with pata drives on usb adapters). not able to access the s.m.a.r.t. and such of the kingston mSata drive I put in it, nor the ability to update the mSata's firmware, but achieved 90+ MB/s on the read & write to the mSata over usb3. will update once I have a chance to test in a direct pata install. will see if it can make a really old 2.8Ghz P4 with 1GB of ram usable at all, vs the mechanical 5400rpm drive - which takes many minutes to boot. docked it a star because of needing another adapter/enclosure to be able to update firmware on the mSata SSD. EDIT: via the pata connector in the laptop (toshiba a25-s307) dos could see the drive an its contents, but I could not make my clone bootable, nor could i get a fresh install of xp to the point of booting.

Combined this up with a 128gb drive and stuck them in to an old Dell 2650. Windows XP loaded super fast and aside from any limitations the glorious P4 or max amount of ram the laptop has, it worked great. I did it to find out just how nicely someone else's project went from many years ago and that I found while doing a Google search for something not even fully related. Anyway, this thing has done awesome and I look forward to remembering what old programs ran in XP. Should be a blast.

I bought this for a Compaq Armada 7770DMT. I was greeted with error 1782 disk controller errors and the laptop hung. If you have a 486 or Pentium 1 based Compaq, don't buy this. It won't work. You might be greeted with foul beeps that can be heard through all of New York. I was able to get this drive to fit and work in a Compaq EVO N600c just fine. That laptop runs Windows XP like a champ with this adapter. It was plug and play. For the heck of it, I tried the drive in a Panasonic Toughbook CF-48. If I didn't use the housing, the drive was plug and play. The drive wouldn't physically fit with the housing. Check compatibility if possible before purchasing. Don't buy it if you have a 486 or Pentium 1 based Compaq. The lone exception may be the LTE 5000 series as they use a different BIOS from the rest of the Compaq laptops from that era. Update: This adapter is a no go for the LTE 5000 series. The drive will detect fine, but the laptop will hang when booting from a Windows startup disk if there is a partition of any kind on the drive.

I've used two of these, and one of the smaller variant, in several older Pentium/G4 PowerPC era laptops and been very happy with the results. The adapter works well enough, doesn't really affect the performance of the drive and has been pretty snappy for at least Ultra-66 IDE speeds. There may be some performance loss/issues at Ultra-100/133 speeds but that's not something I've had a need for. All in all, a great option/way to replace a failing spinning rust drive with an SSD for older IDE only laptops.

Worked great.. on my old dell laptop.

conforme à la description, reçu rapidement dans la France profonde merci amazon

Funktioniert einwandfrei

Je l ai utilisé pour le remplacement d un HDD dans un portable et tout fonctionne très bien

powerbook G4 titaniumのHDDが壊れたのでこちらのパーツを使ってSSD化しました。とても簡単に換装できてとても安定しています。耐久性はわかりませんがとりあえず満足しています。

works perfect