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Hi, I want to remove the Superdrive from my A1260 and replace it with a SSD harddrive 128GB Crucial v4 SATA but i am in doubt what connection the superdrive has. If it has IDE or SATA. On ebay i found this and this but which one is it ? Can somebody shed some light on this ? /donnib
The superdrive is connected via SATA. There are companies selling drive bay kits, just google it. IMHO it is better to replace the startup disk with the SSD, put your system and apps on it and put a beefy data disk in the optical drive bay.
If you go to the Apple icon in the finder menu and select ‘About This Mac" you’ll find a button “More Info” which will launch the system profiler app Profiler. Within it look up your optical player under ‘Disk Burning’ Do you have a ATAPI (PATA/IDE) unit or a ATA unit? I suspect you have a ATAPI (PATA/IDE) unit so you need a unit that converts SATA to PATA (SATA HD). iFixIt also offers a SATA to PATA unit which is known to fit the MacBook Pros. I’m not sure if unit you have a link for will work as its marked for a Compaq not MacBook Pro. The other link offers a SATA to SATA unit and is listed for a MacBook Pro, which I don’t think is what you need here.
Why not a 256gb crucial sata drive, and less messing about!!!
