does this accept a pata hdd or a sata?
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Sata it's the only way to connect a sata drive to this type of notebook. Does it work Yes, over price for plastic. You won't hit full speed of the drive but it works and faster It feels then ide drive...may not be flush with case after installing. So you know
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This caddy only supports SATA. I have it installed on a DELL M65 Mobile Workstation. Works like a champ and is hot swappable.
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sata. I used it to put a hard drive from a broken laptop in another laptop as a spare.
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I cannot answer this because I ordered one caddy and then had to order the other caddy to fit my HDD. I don't know which HDD I have so it was trial & error. Sorry
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Kimberly:That is a good question. According to the box, it is compliant with IDE-PATA Ultra DMA 66/100/133 Mbps, SATA 1.5/3/6 Gb/sSystem requirements are MAC OS 9.0 and above or Windows 98 through 7.
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Absolutely. This will work on PATA and SATA drives both 3.5" and 2.5". The 2.5" is what would be in the laptop.It is an excellent product. I have another one which I bought earlier but this one has some additional featureslike the on/off switch.
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Means that the harddrive will fit a SATA or a PATA plug-in inside your Computer. Most Newer computersuse a SATA type Hard-Drive.
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Roger, You driver is also known as IDE or EIDE or PATA. The Station only works with SATA drives. So the short answer is no, it is not.
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It also comes with a molex (PATA) style connector. Just use a molex to SATA adapter to run the second drive. I am running two laptop drives off of it in my system.
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I bought two types of adapters. I did not use this one. I used the HDE SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter shown for $6.50. I used it to connect a SATA Optical DVD player to the IDE cable. It worked fine. I would expect it to work with a SATA SSD Go to http://www.amazon.com/HDE-SATA-Drive-Interface-Adapter/dp/B002Y2NI4M/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1405960951&sr=1-2&keywords=HDE%C2%AE+SATA+to+IDE%2FIDE+Adapter&dpPl=1
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No, see http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-sata-and-esata/
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This is a IDE HDD Enclosure Case, so NO it will not work with a sata drive no matterwhat the operating system.
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hi, just to clarify, this board has 2 sata III connections which should work with any drive that is compatible with the sata standard. ssd or hdd even a bluray drive. make sure you have the black sata power connectors from power supply too.
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Yes it will ! As long as the drive is IDE/PATA it will work and it A cheap way to get an external drive and or get your data.
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Most Sata connectors are backwards compatible. Just do a quick Google search.
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This is a ide(pata) hard drive not a sata.This hd uses a ribbon cable for data.The power and data cables are totally different and not compatible.You must buy a sata hard drive.
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This drive has a SATA interface, I don't know if you might be able to get an adapter.
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It reads any drive with a SATA connection. I have also gotten a PATA-to-SATA connector for about $12, and using that I can also read my old PATA hard drives (one of these is a WD caviar blue)
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PATA standard uses 40 pins for communication. A device with 44 pins has 4 extra pins that act as "switches" to tell the device that it is a master, slave, cable select or other. On a laptop with one drive, no switches are usually needed. This drive should work if your laptop uses PATA (IDE) look it up on wikipedia for a picture of the pins. What I have run into with these drives is they are a bit thicker than a normal spinning HDD, maybe 1.5mm. Just don't force it. The older white version was a tad thinner but the new silver ones are the only ones I can find now. The current technology is SATA which is much faster and does not have the 40 pins or "switches" it resembles a USB or HDMI connector (IT'S NOT EITHER SO DONT TRY), you just plug and go. good luck and keep the packaging.
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I have not tried it, but it should be fine. It doesn't care what SATA drive you plug in really, it's up to the OS to figure that out anyway.