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Pros: Working adapters. Connector shells take guesswork out of cable orientation.
Cons: The board protrudes past the rear edges of the drive, so if you need to slide the drive through a matching opening or the sides of the drive body are mounted against a flat surface, you might not be able to install the drive with this adapter installed. The provided drives screws are long and can prevent the tray catch mechanism from functioning. Soft plastic standoffs can compress. No master/slave jumper.
Other Thoughts: See SKU 10574 if you need an adapter that matches the size of the back panel of the drive. The connectors on that product have no polarity alignment features though.
Bottomline: Before ordering, check your intended installation location to make sure that this will fit.
Pros: Had some laptop drives that was not in use. Orderet this and it worked as described. Easy install, just 1 minute. The price is great for this product. The build quality is very good and the needed screws are included.
Cons: It would be easier if this item came with a standard power connector instead of a floppy power connector (not to many floppy-power plugs in my pc...).
Other Thoughts: Brilliant i you have unused laptop dives lying around!
Bottomline: Used this in my Media Center PC. Looks a bit cooler with a slim DVD-drive. A nice prodyct to have.
Pros: was able to connect a DVD/CD writer to my desktop computer and test the driveit reads DVDs and burned CDs just finethe drive came from a three year old laptop that had been dropped
Cons: would have liked a standard power connector instead of a floppy power connector
Other Thoughts: a good way to reuse parts from a broken laptop right now I'm using the adapter ona desktop system which I cut out a slot for the DVD drive on one of the face plates of the computer and made a bracket to hold the laptop DVD drive in place
Bottomline: good price and it works I really only needed one of these adapters maybe I'll find a use for the second one sometime
Pros: Works OK, use for testing out-of-laptop or permanent solution. Quality good. "Loopthrough" for floppy power supply, although this is probably a ggod use of a redundant power connector now nobody uses them.
Cons: Soldered pins on 44pin connector end up a bit close to the case even with the provided stand offs. Use insulation tape to be sure of no shorts. Case for this type of drive now urgently needed.
Other Thoughts: will test with an IDE to SATA board soon and also IDE to USB.Needs DX to sell a case to put it in now........
Bottomline: Good for the price.