is this for sata hard drives only?
1657801
No, it has three power connectors for IDE hard drives or CD-rom & DVD drives. If you need more than three connectors, as I did, you will need to purchase a "Y" connector to get an additional power connector.
1404587
Yes, no problem. I personally use a standard SATA drive through, I need the capacity. Works like a charm...
306704
It is Sata II or SATA III compatible. If you do not understand the interface for HDD you probably should not be building a computer or buying components.
1930561
It has worked with all my SATA drives from 100GB to 750GB. You'll have to use an adapter for pin conversion.
1813005
Don't know - sorry - I am using mine as an external (e-sata) attached to a desktop.
71083
Yes. It's the same connection for all sata ports and they are backwards compatible.
169514
Yes, it works with any SATA device, the enclosure is for any DVD/CD/Blu-ray device, but any SATA HDD will work, size would be a little big bigger than enclosures for HDD, but will work anyway.
411851
It should work if you have a SATA drive. You need to correctly open and mount the drive into the enclosure and snap the enclosure closed.
365139
I zoomed the image of the enclosure in its package and it does say at the top of the packaging that it's for SATA drives. Good deal, though, if you can use it - Fry's gets $40 for this model ($28.99 on Amazon as of this writing.)
1470572
It did work for every SATA or PATA/IDE i connected to it. Except a 40megabyte harddrive from 1991 which was probably broken anyway.
2259482
As long as the drive is a SATA and not an IDE drive. This only accommodates SATA.
2228035
Yes, it will work with any Sata based drive. There isn't a speed difference between sata cables, so go for style more than anything
656308
I don't use it for connect hard drive, but the voltage and ampers maybe working with it,, so there are another solution for connect hardrive. for example SATA/PATA/IDE Drive to USB Adapter Converter
37134
I don't see why not, it can use any SATA drive. I bought off-the-shelf WD drives for it.
1668784
This hard drive is compatible with sata 6gb? I hope your early reply thank you in advance.
1282387
sata is sata, doesn't matter if it is sata3 or sata2, all those only matter to things like hard drive that needs that much bandwidth to start with. sata3 is over kill, hdd can't function up to that speed anyways, unless you are connecting to a high end SSD.
192752
Yes, any SATA drive will work. If you want a detailed list of the tested drives go to the MSI website and look for the MoBo model. You can check at tested compatible CPUs, Memory, HDD, etc