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Title:
Optical Drive Cable doesn't fit Optical Bay SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
Text:
Hello everyone,
Model: MacBook2,1
Serial Number (system) W87381J7Z5Z
I am replacing my MacBook Core 2 Duo (Late 2007) optical drive with an SSD. I bought a 9.5mm SATA Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy Adapter Amazon, it is exactly like this one
http://www.amazon.com/9-5mm-Optical-Drive-Caddy-Adapter/dp/B005FIFRA0
I followed the ifixit guide on replacing the optical drive but discovered that the SATA socket on the caddy I bought is not compatible with the optical drive cable in my MacBook, they are different connectors! The picture in the Amazon add shows it quite well, compare it with the socket on the ifixit enclosure
[product|IF107-078]
My question is: Is there an adaptor I can buy to convert between the two? Or is there no other option than to buy the hard drive enclosure from ifixit? Is there really no one else that makes a compatible optical to HDD enclosre?
Thanks a lot for any help you can provide!
Regards
Mumby
Device:
MacBook Core 2 Duo
Tags:
macbook, optical cable, sata, sdd
Status:
open
Accepted Answer:
| 62767 |
Edit by Mumby,
Title:
Optical Drive Cable doesn't fit Optical Bay SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
Text:
| Hello everyone, |
| Serial Number (system) W87381J7Z5Z |
| I am replacing my MacBook Core 2 Duo (Late 2007) optical drive with an SSD. I bought a 9.5mm SATA Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy Adapter Amazon, it is exactly like this one |
| http://www.amaz |
| I followed the ifixit guide on replacing the optical drive but discovered that the SATA socket on the caddy I bought is not compatible with the optical drive cable in my MacBook, they are different connectors! The picture in the Amazon add shows it quite well, compare it with the socket on the ifixit enclosure |
| [product|IF107-078] |
| My question is: Is there an adaptor I can buy to convert between the two? Or is there no other option than to buy the hard drive enclosure from ifixit? Is there really no one else that makes a compatible optical to HDD enclosre? |
| Thanks a lot for any help you can provide! |
| Regards |
| Mumby |
Device:
MacBook Core 2 Duo
Tags:
macbook, optical cable, sata, sdd
Status:
open
Edit by Mumby,
Title:
Optical Drive Cable doesn't fit Optical Bay SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
Text:
| Hello everyone, |
Seri I am replacing my MacBook Core 2 Duo (Late 2007) optical drive with an SSD. I bought a 9.5mm SATA Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy Adapter Amazon, it is exactly like this one |
Seri I am replacing my MacBook Core 2 Duo (Late 2007) optical drive with an SSD. I bought a 9.5mm SATA Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy Adapter Amazon, it is exactly like this one |
| http://www.amaz |
| I followed the ifixit guide on replacing the optical drive but discovered that the SATA socket on the caddy I bought is not compatible with the optical drive cable in my MacBook, they are different connectors! The picture in the Amazon add shows it quite well, compare it with the socket on the ifixit enclosure |
| [product|IF107-078] |
| My question is: Is there an adaptor I can buy to convert between the two? Or is there no other option than to buy the hard drive enclosure from ifixit? Is there really no one else that makes a compatible optical to HDD enclosre? |
| Thanks a lot for any help you can provide! |
| Regards |
| Mumby |
Device:
MacBook Core 2 Duo
Tags:
macbook, optical cable, sata, sdd
Status:
open
Original post by Mumby,
Title:
Optical Drive Cable doesn't fit Optical Bay SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
Text:
Hello everyone,
I am replacing my MacBook Core 2 Duo optical drive with an SSD. I bought a 9.5mm SATA Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy Adapter Amazon, it is exactly like this one
http://www.amazon.com/9-5mm-Optical-Drive-Caddy-Adapter/dp/B005FIFRA0
I followed the ifixit guide on replacing the optical drive but discovered that the SATA socket on the caddy I bought is not compatible with the optical drive cable in my MacBook, they are different connectors! The picture in the Amazon add shows it quite well, compare it with the socket on the ifixit enclosure
[product|IF107-078]
My question is: Is there an adaptor I can buy to convert between the two? Or is there no other option than to buy the hard drive enclosure from ifixit? Is there really no one else that makes a compatible optical to HDD enclosre?
Thanks a lot for any help you can provide!
Regards
Mumby
Device:
MacBook Core 2 Duo
Tags:
macbook, optical cable, sata, sdd
Status:
open