late 2007-early 2008 MBP HDD installation/conection Problem

[idexo]

hi,

My old mbp had a broken superdrive so i wanted to change to a HDD caddy but i realized that superdrive is not sATA. what can i do? is there a caddy for this? what does the old connection called? i suppose i can't find a sATA to mainboard cable, but maybe a supported caddy

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[mikentosh2003]

Other World Computing (macsales.com) sells a 'caddy' for older macs. I have and '07 MBP and looked into it.

I chatted with tech support, and if I remember correctly, macbook pro's up until macbookpro5,1 (mine is a MacBook Pro 3,1) have an ATA connection for the optical drive. They sell a caddy with ATA connection, but it's $99. The sata type is around $20-$30, I think.

If you go to OWC and try to find the ATA caddy, its hard to find. I couldn't find it anyways. I had to ask about it and they sent me a link.

hope this helps
-Mike

 

[jruschme]

It looks like something like this would work nicely.