chenyang mSATA Mini SATA/M.2 NGFF SSD to SATA 2.5 inch Hard Disk Case Enclosure(Not Work for NVME SSD)

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.

I bought this to upgrade an old laptop I have. This part is faster than the old IDE drive my laptop had. It also wasn't very expensive to do this.

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.

I put this in an older computer to replace its aging hard drive. So far this adapter has been working as expected, and is a good value.

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.

I had a couple old msata drives laying around, and a couple old XP-era computers I keep for nostalgia, and this makes those computers amazeballs! Couldn’t believe how fast they were with one of these drive adapters and the msata drive. If you have some affinity for an old system that needs a PATA connector, and don’t want to re-experience the slowness of mechanical drives, this is awesome!

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.

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.

This thing is great for adding ssd to ide hdd system. Used it in pc and mac. Probably getting another one for an older digital recorder I have. Speeds sytem up vey well.

Me ayudó a reciclar una memoria M2 y a actualizar mi primera laptop, igual una computadora rescatada ya de casi 20 años, tuve algunos detalles con el ensamble en especial por la carcasa que posiblemente en algunas laptops se quede atorada por estar unos milímetros más grande que un disco normal, son detalles que pueden quitarte todo un día en destapar la computadora para poder extraer el adaptador de ser necesario.Le estoy dando 5 estrellas por qué fue de fácil instalación y el BIOS la detecto de inmediato, la velocidad de transferencia es increíble considerado que ahora el cuello de botella es la laptop y no el disco duro, con su sistema Xp ya recuperado inicio en 20 segundos con su nuevo disco de 128gb, que exactamente es lo que le da ese plus, el poder actualizar una computadora que ya tiene muchos años obsoleta 🥲.Eso sí consideren que posiblemente algunas computadoras requieren actualizar su BIOS, mi pc lo requirió hace unos años cuando le instale un disco de más de 60 gigabytes así que para esta ocasión no requirió de otra actualización, ojo con ese detalle ya que es una computadora que no por ser viejita está sin su mantenimiento ocasional, algunas empresas aún permiten descargar estás actualizaciones desde su página original, claro como dicen ellos "puedes actualizar tu BIOS pero es bajo tu propio riesgo" así que eso ya es decisión del propietario de cada equipo si corre ese riesgo.

Sehr gutes Gerät, bin mit der Ausführung des Gerätes und der Anwendung für die verschiedenen Einsatzmöglichkeiten wie clonen, kopieren und Abspeichern der Betriebssysteme und Dateien sehr zufrieden, kurz gesagt, KEINE PROBLEME bei den unterschiedlichen Anwendungen!

Monter avec un ssd M2 sata (et pas pcie) de 256 go dans un vieux mac g4, parfaitement reconnue.Il y a des pin pour configurer avec jumper ci nécessaire et le montage est relativement facile et rapide(5mn).Attention model IDE et 2,5 pouce (laptop ou micro machine)

Un ssd M2 en taille 2280 de seulement 256g⁰ er windows 11 livré avec un Lenovo P51 reconditionné s'est parfaitement inséré dans cet adaptateur au format 2.5 et a été installé dans un Lenovo T460 plus ancien. Après 2 redémarrages automatiques sans aucune intervention, tout est ok et prêt pour un PC de secours rapide.l