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Hard drive connector interface for A1304!?

After looking very closely at the pictures in your article it seems that the A1304 actually has a Samsung Sata 1.8" drive in it!! What is the largest replacement drive for a 1.6GHz A1304 Macbook Air ? Does this drive need a micro-Sata interface?

I had been led to search for a 1.8" Pata Zif 5mm drive because there is a comment in your article about there being "no Sata" connection on the Motherboard and then a reference to Pata/Zif. But there is NO clear indication in the article what the actual interface/plug actually is.

I've combed tons of forums and spec pages but there is no clear answer out there. And lots of people are asking.

Will this drive work?

http://www.kingston.com/ukroot/ssd/vplus...

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Mactracker says SATA and but eBay says ZIF *shrug*

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I trust eBay by the way

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It is definitely a SATA drive. The real question is what is the connection interface. Does a ZIF interface exist for SATA drives, or is it a microSATA interface?

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I found a post on iFixit here that answers the question. HDD to SSD

It seems that the A1304 has a SATA drive with a LIF connector.

Now the only problem is where do I find one of those larger than 128Gig?

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Correct me if I'm wrong anyone, you must have you have a Mac Book Air rev b since this is the only machine to use SATA-LIF.

The Rev a used PATA, and the Rev C uses standard SATA (or micro SATA. Its not that clear).

Again I could be wrong of course since I am just lately getting into the MAC's.

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http://www.macrumors.com/2010/10/27/256g... see if you can find one of these before Apple closes that loop :)

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