NewerTech AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket

This worked out perfectly on my HDD to SSD upgrade on iMac 7,1 (mid 2007) 20inch. The adapter frame appears to be aluminum and very sturdy, but very light. I know some people mentioned they had a DOA or soldering was bad and had a short, and someone mentioned the included screws did not fit. However, I was lucky and did not encounter any issues.I chose Samsung 850 EVO 2.5inch 1TB drive for my upgrade for better warranty and read/write speeds. I spent 3-5 days skimming through forums catching up on others that have my same Mac, but I couldn't find anyone specifically saying this SSD would work. Huzzah, it did! For anyone else out there that want to stretch some more years out of their old iMac, I did start with this reputable manufacturer's website wizard to check on what works for my Mac.[...]I already got my system upgraded to 4GB RAM, but why did I decide to upgrade my 320GB HDD this late in the game?? Well, funny thing. I thought I had a bunch of malware on my old HDD, as it was booting up, shutting down, running apps super SLOW. Usually, slowness is a good indication. Now, my OCD really wanted to nuke those malware bytes in memory, so I elected to run a 35 pass drive wipe. This probably pushed a near 10 year old drive over the edge with it's worn out moving parts. Firing up the old Mac OS X Lion installation CD, then eventually getting all the way to downloading El Capitan after the usual updates, the installation wizard detected S.M.A.R.T errors and stopped the installation. When I upgraded the RAM, the system did seem like it got a boost, and well, this system overall is still working very well for web surfing, so I checked out what other people had to say about their old iMacs. Looking at the Mac's System Profile and Apple.com tech specs, it was very hard to find specifics to what level SATA the mobo is running. It appeared to be SATA i. In the Crucial wizard, you will find the suggestion is for a SATA iii drive (SATA 6.0Gb/s). I found on some forums where people were saying the Mac's old HDD is actually connected to SATA ii. After my installation, I can confirm, YES, the Mac is on SATA ii (3.0 Gb/s). For novices like me in this realm, each level SATA is apparently backwards compatible. I found this following article, [...]Ok, I'm sure some of you are still asking, why go with a SATA iii 1TB SSD Drive? For me, I'm thinking ahead. When this iMac is completely done and useless even with web surfing, then I can still repurpose this SSD on a new system.Samsung 850 EVO - 1TB - 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E1T0B/AM)I followed the build steps exactly and worked out perfectly. Even though, this video is for HDD to HDD upgrade, it will work with the Samsung SSD.[...]when you use this or a similar adapter.NewerTech AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" SATA Drive Converter BracketFor anyone that wants to just start fresh with a new OS install without cloning your old drive, when you go through the Mac OS X installation CD, and your drive is not listed, it is because you need to go up to the Utilities menu and format the drive with Mac OS X Extended (journaled) with GUID. I hard restarted the system 3 times before I realized that I needed to format the new drive, so the installation wizard can read the drive.In the end, my iMac got a rebirth with the new and much faster drive. It is booting up, shutting down, and launching apps way faster. Keep in mine, when the SSD is backwards compatible, it will not reach it's full drive potential. Check out the details that I posted above from SanDisk

I bought it to upgrade my iMac with a new SSD drive!I fit like a glove!Great quality!METAL!NOT PLASTIC!

I purchased four of these adapters for use with some Samsung 1TB SSDs and a Cooler Master HAF X tower. The adapters are solid and well-constructed. The SSDs fit comfortably and snugly, even before screwing them down. The holes matched up perfectly. In turn, I installed the adapters in the tower's hot-swap drive trays (again, the holes aligned perfectly) and experienced no trouble with my RAID 5 array. Admittedly, I haven't performed any speed tests yet, but on the surface, all appear to be perfectly effective (and invisible) pass-through connections.When installing the hot-swap drive trays, I sometimes have trouble mating the drives to their backplane connectors. It's just a bit finicky, whereas a traditional 3.5" hard drive in the same slot has no such problem. The adapters are rigid and true, so I don't suspect they're to blame. I could toy with the positioning of the HAF X's backplane and shape of the hot-swap drive trays, but it's really not important to me. A couple of tries, and they're in.

One of the tech items that just does exactly what it’s supposed to. I’ve bought a number of these over the years, and never had any issues.

I recently purchased the NewerTech AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket and I must say, it has truly lived up to its promises. The installation was straightforward and the build quality is top-notch. It allowed me to seamlessly replace the SATA HD in my 27” iMac with an SSD, significantly improving the performance of my machine. I highly recommend this product to anyone with a 27" iMac looking to upgrade their hard drive to an SSD. It’s a game-changer!

This mounting bracket is a great solution for folks replacing 3.5" drives with 2.5" SSDs. This isn't the first of these that I've purchased, and I'd readily recommend these to anyone needing to do that sort of drive replacement. I've had no problem using them successfully in any computer, although I'd recommend that potential buyers confirm that the specifications (size etc.) work for them.The issue I have is partly with the way the plastic guides/rails in the PowerMac G5 drive bay don't accommodate mounting the bracket more securely, i.e. with screws. If you don't have that type of no-tools drive bay, you probably don't need to read any further.The bracket does include mounting holes and screws, but the problem is that they don't match the drive bay design of Apple's G5 drive bay. The guides were apparently designed to fit the round dome-shaped rubber knobs Apple equipped their sides of their drives with, so they'd easily slide into the guides and be secured by the rotating clip arms, with no need for tools. Even then, the problem would be easily solved if the rubber knobs were available, but they don't seem to be in production, and the one set I saw offered online cost a ridiculous amount for a few dome-shaped pieces of rubber. What I've done is put the screws only partway into the sides of the bracket (they're still somewhat loose in the guides) to prevent significant rattling, and mounted the bracket (with its mounted SSD) in the bay. It works, and since the storage is solid state there's no real worry about mechanical failure. The drive bracket only rattles (a little) when the computer is moved, which isn't that often. The attached photo ("NewerTech Adaptadrive in PowerMac G5") shows the bracket in the lower ('B') bay, with a 3.5" hard drive in the upper ('A') bay.