Help identifying this adapter

[printnweb]

Hi, i purchased some WESTERN DIGITAL 2.5" 500gb ssd drives, but they have very strange connectors at the back..i needed some advice on identifying the connectors, and any information i might need to convert them to standard sata?



Thank in advance

[deftrue]

Are you sure those are SSD drives? The connector, despite de poor quality of the picture, seem to be a standard mini USB connector, or maybe some sort of Firewire connector. There's no easy DIY way of converting that to SATA, I'm afraid...

[pcimage]

These don't look like SSD drive to me either, and that's a micro usb2 connector. It's from a WD passport USB chassis.

Assuming the drives do actually work and you don't need the data then you could convert to SATA by transferring the rom chip at U12 to a compatible SATA PCB.

[HaQue]

They look like the ones from inside a passport case. grab a usb cable and see

[longlife]

They are 500GB Laptop HDD with extn USB connector.

[HaQue]

Hi, a first step in this case would have been to google something like:

Code:

"W10eas23xxx" "connector"

or

Code:

"W10eas23xxx" "specifications"

where "W10eas23xxx" would be YOUR model number