Experience the Solid State Drive speed advantage or reuse an existing notebook hard drive in your 3.5″ drive bay equipped desktop Mac, PC, or external enclosure with the Newertech AdaptaDrive 2.5″ to 3.5″ Drive Converter Bracket. With industry standard 3.5″ drive screw mounting locations, the AdaptaDrive enables you to install ANY size 2.5″ SATA hard drive or SSD in a 3.5″ SATA drive bay.

The AdaptaDrive supports 1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s drives, so existing notebook hard drives can be utilized for extra storage; or a high performance ‘3G’ SSD such as the OWC Mercury Electra 3G can be added for an incredible system speed boost. Because the AdaptaDrive is built from aluminum and features an open design for maximum drive cooling air flow, power users and gamers seeking maximum drive speed can now easily add the latest high performance ‘6G’ SSDs, like the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G, and experience data transfer rates over 500MB/s from their SATA Revision 3.0 (6Gb/s) compatible home/office computer or external drive.

The NewerTech AdaptaDrive has been benchmark test proven to deliver the same data transfer rates as is experienced when a drive is connected directly to the SATA data bus. The AdaptaDrive doesn’t create a bottleneck or any performance throttling…it delivers pure data pass-through performance and drive use convenience from any 2.5″ SATA 1.5Gb/s, 3Gb/s, or 6Gb/s hard drive or SSD.