SSD Adapter

[bushy3]

Can someone tell me the name of the current hard drive interface in my laptop?  It is nothing like a SATA interface.

I want to exchange the factory hard drive with a new SATA SSD but know what to call and were to buy an adapter that will allow this connection.

[WAWood]

bushy3

I take it that your HDD connector in your laptop is a bunch of small pins, not a couple of tabs, right?

In that case, it is the legacy IDE interface -- and unfortunately, while there are adapters that can plug into that, and then into a SATA drive (I use one in an old desktop to use a SATA drive), they are all way too large to fit into a laptop.

I use the smallest one available and it requires a power connection plug (known as a molex) for powering the SATA drive and the laptop has no such power lead.

Sorry, but I know of no way to connect a SATA HDD to an IDE interface in a laptop.

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[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Actually the drive in your PC is a sata drive.

There is an interface on the drive which looks like it is part of the drive, but it can be removed to expose the typical sata drive connections as pictured below.

What I can't tell you is if a SSD will work in your notebook or not.

If you have an Intel processor and chipset and install an Intel SSD it might.

I put an Intel 535 120 GB SSD in an old HP nc6400 notebook with the Mobile Intel 945 chipset and it worked just fine.

If your notebook has a nvidia chipset and amd processor a SSD may not work at all.

I can tell you that if your notebook has a nvidia chipset and amd processor, SSD TRIM support will not be enabled because that controller does not have an advanced host controller interface.

[bushy3]

You nailed it. the original drive is a stat with an attached adapter.  I removed the HDD, then removed the adapter and installed it on a new SSD.  Everything worked great!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

That is great news.

Glad the SSD worked in your notebook.