will this work with a SATA dvd drive on an apple powermac g3 that uses IDE?
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Honestly can't answer for a MAC. This has worked on PC and Linux machines both for me. I would suspect it could work on a MAC too, but I haven't broken down a MAC to try anything like this.
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This seems to require an SATA drive, so it won't work with the IDE drive that I had purchased.
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Yes, that is irrelevant- the interface and physical dimensions are what count. As long as interface is SATA and the drive is a 2.5" size it will work. I find these enclosures to be really poor quality and often do not work on single USB bus power and require the Y cable. On some Macs the USB ports are on both sides of the computer and is impossible.
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Anything with a sata connection. I found ide to be too difficult to get working in the tiny ccase.I was able to salvage a bdrom drive out of my old laptop, and it works perfectly zip - tied in. Not flush but or doesn't really matter since it isn't visible at all unless you're puttinga disc in.
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The SATA is composed of a 15 (power) and and 7 (data) pin parts (so 22 in total). I'm 99.9% sure this will fit the SATA drive. I have not used it with Mac to Mac (only Windows USB side to Macintosh hard drive and it worked like a champ) so the only concern I would have is would be that the Mac will support the device. The other issue would be that the Hard Drive's format is readable by your OS... If so then I would say it will work.
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Hey Nelson, i'm not sure, i installed this drive into my late 2007 Intel Macbook Pro 15" 2.4/2.2GHz and it worked like a charm. :)i would research your computer model on google and what cd drives it is compatible with.sorry i wasnt more help!
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I suggest you look at their website for their supported systems: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/drive_bracket/datadoubler/
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Yes, this DVD unit will work with the Macbook provided that you use either a USB 2.0 or a USB 3.0 port depending on what USB ports are provided on the Macbook. It should not be a problem, enjoy your computing days!
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If I'm not mistaken it should work. I installed the 1TB in my Mac Pro which has sata 3.
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Yes, it should. It will read it as a slave drive, so the operating system does not matter. It has both IDE and Sata cables. I used it on an IDE hard drive and had no problems.
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Hey Nelson, i'm not sure, i installed this drive into my late 2007 Intel Macbook Pro 15" 2.4/2.2GHz and it worked like a charm. :) i would research your computer model on google and what cd drives it is compatible with. sorry i wasnt more help!
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If the HD didn't fail this will work with an IDE or SATA drive so you should be able to use it.
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No, it does not use a standard IDE or SATA connector. It is made to slide into the optical "bay" found in laptops.
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I used it to install a new SATA DVD-Burner to replace an old IDE or ATA CD-R drive, (which were no longer available), on a friend's older Dell PC. I had no problems. It continued to work with the IDE hard drive.
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No, it's PATA as shown on the website, which is the same as IDE. It will work in older machines with IDE but not in newer machines that have SATA.
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I've only used this drive for DVDs which works fine. I don't see why it wouldn't work it looks good with my MacBook Air too. I have no issues with this drive
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I don't know what you mean by "works with a Mac Computer". Any 2.5" IDE hard drive will fit in this enclosure. With the USB interface, you can plug it into any computer that has a USB port and it can be used as extra data storage. Then its just a matter of formatting it for MacOS or WinOS. In my case, I had a Powerbook go bad and i needed to get the information off of the drive. I put it in this enclosure and just plugged it into the USB port on a new Macbook I purchased and I could retrieve all of the data I needed. Hope that helps.