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.

Works great

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

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

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.

Was hoping to pop this into an old iBook G4 to give it some sort of life for retro gaming but the adapter was not recognized by the G4 nor the IDE adapters I have on hand. I'm chalking it up to a short existing somewhere seeing as there were several instances of shoddy solder work on the board and the IDE pins.

This let me install an SSD into a Windows XP laptop. Does not get cooler than that. Thank you so much.

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.