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

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 flawlessly in a very old HP6110 Compaq laptop, at very low cost, under MX Linux.

Works great, I paired this with a Transcend 128GB mSATA SSD and used Macrium to image the old drive and restore it to the new one. I put this in an old Gateway 7422GX laptop running WinXP.

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.

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.

Bought this to replace the factory spinning rust drive with higher performance SSD on my PowerBook G3 Series Wallstreet. Physically everything fit fine, but had a lot of issues getting it to recognize. Now I have it recognizing and it does work, but it is extremely slow. Boot up takes several minutes longer than the spinning rust. It will hang for long periods when transferring or saving files. I’ve used the SSD on other computers without this adapter and it was very fast. So I don’t think the issue is the drive. I ended up going back to the regular hard drive and performance is back to normal. I think that compatibility needs to be improved as this is going to be most marketable to those wanting to resurrect old hardware.

Worked great.. on my old dell laptop.

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.

plugged in a brand new mSATA drive and IDE cannot see it!

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Used this to replace the hard drive in my iBook G4. Perfect fit!

Good Product Worth to buy