I pulled this little 8GB pATA SSD (Del00-01850-m2ccu) out of a dell laptop. I don't think I can just slip it into the slot occupied by the wireless card, so is there a suggestion for a 1x PCIe adapter that's mac bootable and not stupid expensive?
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PATA mini-PCIe SSD in a cMP?
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Congrats on exploring the under utilized mpcie slot. Head over to sintech.cn and check out their latest offerings, including a mpcie to pcie m.2. adapter, albeit limited to a x1 pcie 1.0 connection. They also have a variety of other adapters to push the lonely mpcie beyond its original WiFi implementation.
For fun, I’ve run a mpcie to external cardbus adapter with a fresco logic USB adapter. It works well with Sata II hard disks.
For fun, I’ve run a mpcie to external cardbus adapter with a fresco logic USB adapter. It works well with Sata II hard disks.
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Thanks! I checked out that site, but since this SSD is pATA, there isn’t much available for it.
PATA, wow. How do you select master, slave, or cable select? Or does any of that even make sense without cabling? Weird stuff. I didn't even know there were PATA SSDs.
funny how I just had to pull a Siemens microbox PC from a machine at work and was def laughing at how old the hard drive was, using a PATA connection. Which boggled me since that would have been almost a decade obsolete when the machine was made lol. I've never heard of a PATA SSD either
You could try a cheap SATA to PATA adaptor if you have any free SATA ports on your MP. Of course, the real question is why you would want to do this? Beyond the tinkering aspect, which I understand and respect, what were you hoping to gain from using this? Its performance will be bested by pretty much any modern hard drive.
EDIT: Of course, now that I look at the photo that you posted (derp!), I see that it's a PCI-E connection, not a bog standard or ZIF PATA connector. Talk about a unicorn. Didn't realize they made PCI-E PATA SSDs. Hats off to you if you get this working!
EDIT: Of course, now that I look at the photo that you posted (derp!), I see that it's a PCI-E connection, not a bog standard or ZIF PATA connector. Talk about a unicorn. Didn't realize they made PCI-E PATA SSDs. Hats off to you if you get this working!
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Yeah I actually do have a couple of PATA SSDs dating back to an old Dell XT tablet I had, but they use the ZIF connector. Never heard of a PATA PCIe one before.
The crazy part is that the older OWC IDE SSDs actually use a PATA mPCIe in the shell. Here's a photo of the Mercury Legacy Pro:
I might be able to find some adapters to make it happen, and just 3D print a cMP drive sled to accommodate everything, but I think that the cost of the adapters will be more expensive than just buying the cheapest 2.5" SSD I can find.
I might be able to find some adapters to make it happen, and just 3D print a cMP drive sled to accommodate everything, but I think that the cost of the adapters will be more expensive than just buying the cheapest 2.5" SSD I can find.
PATA SSDs are relatively common on embedded/industrial PCs, a lot of old CNCs and similar machines have it. Companies upgraded from hard disk drives to SSDs but not the hardware itself, so some SSDs makers started making industrial PATA SSDs. I've bought some over the years, even a 256GB one.
PATA SSDs were relatively common, but PCIe SSDs using the PATA protocol...less so. PATA SSDs were somewhat popular with iPod Classic modders, because you ditch the SATA to PATA bridge. These are a different beast.
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