Dabbling with the idea of eSata in mid-2011 iMac

[dirtygermankid]

As you can see by all the iFixit tutorials and the people stuffing SSDs under their optical drives, the 21.5in iMacs have a third, functioning internal sata port. I've searched high and low to find someone who attempted to mod their case to support eSata.

My intentions are to swap my optical drive with a SSD and figure out a way to engineer a sata to eSata bracket somewhere, somehow.

Has anyone seen anyone attempt this yet?

 

[r3m1]

As you can see by all the iFixit tutorials and the people stuffing SSDs under their optical drives, the 21.5in iMacs have a third, functioning internal sata port. I've searched high and low to find someone who attempted to mod their case to support eSata.

My intentions are to swap my optical drive with a SSD and figure out a way to engineer a sata to eSata bracket somewhere, somehow.

Has anyone seen anyone attempt this yet?

A very good attempt from a Dutch tweaker (not me )

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/38151954#38151954

The near answer to your question.

 

[philipma1957]

don't you have a t-bolt port?