Hi, I've spent hours trying to find a connector to solve my problem. I have a Vaio X505, It's a tiny ultra mobile from 2003/4. I wanted to upgrade the hard drive to ssd, but ended up purchasing a micro sata when I need pata. I have hopes that I could find an adaptor that was small enough to still use the sata drive (this is a laptop from a family friend, I don't have the budget to get a pata drive- the 16gb uSata was $35, and a pata/zif drive would be an additional $100). Alternatively, I thought maybe something could run directly from the motherboard, because I've seen a few adaptors for the Sony Vaio P series to convert a microsata drive to a pata connection, and those adaptors look like they connect with the same proprietary piece to the motherboard, but are not the right form factor (they need to bend).
I think you can tell from my post and interchanging of pata and zif without knowing the difference that I don't know much about the interfaces and would really appreciate some help, but I can solder and take apart pieces I think fine.
I'll host the photos so that they don't need to be opened in a seperate photo.
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You'd be trying something like this but using IDE instead. Or could just buy a SSD with a sata-to-pata bridge already integrate like these ZIF examples.
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So, I have on me a CF - Zif adaptor. It has the Zif connection I need, but it of course connects to compact flash not microsata.
I'm not sure what the examples propose, can I directly solder the adapter somehow?
Or, are you saying that basically I have no choice but find the correct interface ssd?
uSata->Pata...In need of some help (photos included)
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Kinnishian, Jun 15, 2010.