SATA superdrive into Macbook Air superdrive enclousre??

[peanutismint]

I've removed the SATA superdrive from my MBP to install a second hard drive. Now I'm left with this spare drive that I'd like to keep using. Sure I could just buy an SATA 9.5mm superdrive enclosure, but none look as nice/run off one USB cable/work as well with the slot-loading drive as the official Apple external superdrive for use with a Macbook Air.

So naturally I'd like to put my original drive inside an external superdrive enclosure. Now I've found a few of these drives listed as faulty on ebay, which would be perfect as I only really want the enclosure, but I did a bit of digging and it seems all of these external superdrives contain IDE drives rather than SATA?? Which will be a problem for me....

Does anybody know of an easy way to fit an SATA drive into one of these apparently IDE superdrive enclosures? Or is it impossible??

 

[johnnyturbouk]

I've removed the SATA superdrive from my MBP to install a second hard drive. Now I'm left with this spare drive that I'd like to keep using. Sure I could just buy an SATA 9.5mm superdrive enclosure, but none look as nice/run off one USB cable/work as well with the slot-loading drive as the official Apple external superdrive for use with a Macbook Air.

So naturally I'd like to put my original drive inside an external superdrive enclosure. Now I've found a few of these drives listed as faulty on ebay, which would be perfect as I only really want the enclosure, but I did a bit of digging and it seems all of these external superdrives contain IDE drives rather than SATA?? Which will be a problem for me....

Does anybody know of an easy way to fit an SATA drive into one of these apparently IDE superdrive enclosures? Or is it impossible??

intersting, i am sure you can get ide to sata converters from ebay, but will it all fit in an already cramped superdrive enclosure - give it a ry and let us know

 

[peanutismint]

Hahah ok may well do! It'd be great to have my old SATA drive in a sleek looking Mac enclosure. None of the other enclosures I've seen seem to account for slot-loading drives...

 

[couto27]

Hahah ok may well do! It'd be great to have my old SATA drive in a sleek looking Mac enclosure. None of the other enclosures I've seen seem to account for slot-loading drives...

what happend in your case, did the faulty superdrive enclosure works in you mbp superdrive ?

im in the same situation, i ordered a optibay + ssd , and i already have the faulty air superdrive around.

 

[satchow]

I bought an enclosure that looks almost exactly like the SuperDrive enclosure. It's plastic though and about $25, but it looks really nice. I can dig up the link later today if you want it.

As for using a SuperDrive enclosure, there's some chip or something inside that you'd have to desolder for the drive to work on a non-air machine.

 

[getz76]

Hahah ok may well do! It'd be great to have my old SATA drive in a sleek looking Mac enclosure. None of the other enclosures I've seen seem to account for slot-loading drives...

Try this one:

http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_ID=186&ParentCat=348