I want to upgrade my laptops hard drive to an SSD but my concern is that instead of a normal sata connection to the motherboard there is a weird adapter connected to the hard drive. I'm hoping that it's just some sort of connection adapter and not an indicator of some unusual non SATA hard drive standard. The hard drive itself is sata but I just want to be sure. Forgive the photography it was done impatiently on my phone.
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The laptop is an Acer 7535G Perhaps but if there is any electronics or other interfaces between this connector and the motherboard it may affect the performance of the SSD or cause any number of issues. I'm not willing to put the price of an SSD down to find out. Hence the thread.
Yet their laptops use totally standard SATA connectors. Only the iMacs have extra pins for temperature sensing. ...it works with a HD, ergo, it isn't going to cause problems. I'd just shove an SSD in there and watch it work. If you're that wary, find a cheap drive to try it on first - second hand SSDs are very cheap, especially for a 32-40GB model.
That connector is just a straight through adapter that is used because of the physical way that a laptop HD has to be installed. The drive can't just be pushed straight in like in a PCs hot swap drive bay. In a laptop it has to be pushed down from above.
