Review on 📀 Storite 2nd Bay 2.5'' SATA Hard Drive Caddy for 12.7mm Universal CD/DVD-ROM - Enhance Laptop Data Storage with HDD/SSD, Compatible with Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony by Ralph Gerry

Parallel ATA (PATA), also known as IDE, has fallen out of favor since the early days of Windows Vista, but that doesn't mean these older computers are completely useless. The problem is that more than a decade later, there are fewer and fewer viable drives for this old interface. Furthermore, this will all be old and slow technology of this era, and laptops don't have the luxury of bulky extra adapters. Enter the optical drive bay adapter: - Discard the old optical drive with its PATA interface. - Use modern 2.5. SATA drive. Almost any SATA SSD, no matter how cheap and "slow" it is, will still make the most of the bus speed. Change the BIOS boot order and enjoy the glory of being able to measure the boot time of your old laptop. a stopwatch instead of a sundial. The adapter itself is "invisible" so that any attached drive will be seen by the computer as the drive itself. Some adapters are only recognized as their chipset, which can cause problems. To fix an old laptop - new life, 5 stars.