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2.5" SATA Hard Drive to IDE 44 Pin Adapter For Laptop Drives

post #1 of 9
1/10/10 at 3:31pm
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Will this work in an Inspiron 9300, or Latitude D600 (in-general any laptop?)
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post #2 of 9
1/10/10 at 3:37pm
not according to the site you linked to
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Suitable for POS Systems (will not fit into most laptops) Great for all Mini Computers that use 44 pin IDE connector and require an upgrade to new SATA 2.5 Inch Drives.
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post #3 of 9
1/11/10 at 6:32pm
It all depends on how much extra room you have inside your hard drive caddy for your particular system. Thinking off the top of my head, there would definitely be some modification necessary to the HD caddy for this to work on a 9300 since it fits lengthwise almost exactly in the caddy. Also, hopefully the width of that adapter isn't wider than a 2.5 HDD because those fit widthwise almost exactly in the caddy as well. Even with modifications, I'm pretty sure the caddy would still barely extend from the system, in which case you would need to secure it somehow.

If you truly want to use a SATA HD you should either buy a SATA 9300 mobo or buy a secondary HDD caddy from ebay that is SATA. The secondary caddy would take the place of your dvd drive but you can always use an external dvd drive.
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post #4 of 9
1/12/10 at 1:53pm
I highly doubt that this would physically fit in any laptop. Not only that, on a Dell Laptop you're going to have to put that edge connector on the 44 pins since Dell doesn't use the individual pin connectors on the 9300 or D600.
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post #5 of 9
6/17/10 at 9:32pm
Question: If you used a ribbon-cable to connect the drive to the adapter and the adapter to the edge-connector, could it work? I'm thinking that perhaps it could squeeze in between the palmrest and the battery...
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post #6 of 9
6/17/10 at 11:35pm
The trick is squeezing the drive in the allotted space. Notebooks are designed with exacting specifications for that kind of thing, so I think you'd have to do some heavy modding to make it work.
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post #7 of 9
6/20/10 at 1:55am
To clarify: I'm thinking the adapter, not the drive--the second ribbon is to keep the old HDD location.

OTOH, if there's room, I've been considering an IDE splitter-cable for second HDD in palmrest mod...
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post #8 of 9
6/20/10 at 6:47am
Interesting. Take some pics and share with us

cheers ...
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post #9 of 9
4/16/11 at 5:32pm

if you could mod that to take the dell edge connector for the IDE drives it might fit. wwidth wise no problem looks by the link to be the same width.or have a new circuit board designed with the dell edge connector for IDE drive it woouldn't be a problem. as the edge connector already sticks out quite a bit.

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