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

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.

It works so far. Pretty neat

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.

Revived an old laptop with IDE drive. Start up is much faster now

I've tried this on two laptops. An IBM ThinkPad 760XL and an IBM ThinkPad 600E. Neither one will write to drive in the enclosure. In the 760XL, using fdisk from MSDOS 6.22, Win98, or WIn98SE I am unable to see a fixed disk at all unless I take the SSD out, format it in Windows 11 as FAT32 and then place back into the laptop. However, once in the laptop I am unable to format the drive or add extended partitions (I attempted 8GB out of 128GB). The 600E is a little better as it can see it as a fixed disk no matter what state the SSD is in. However it also is unable to format or make extended partitions.Perhaps I got a bad board? Something shorted? Dunno.Also, in order to fit the 600E's IDE interface I had to cut much of the front of the case so that it would plug into the 600E socket.

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.

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.

Working flawlessly in my PowerBook G4, paired with a Kingston KC600. This is now my go-to for breathing new life into old machines.