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.

Case is extremely cheap, but it works at being a drive. Used in a PowerBook G4.

Worked perfectly no problems at all

Worked great.. on my old dell laptop.

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.

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