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Name: 500GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit
Brand: OWC
SKU: OWCSSDMXLE500
Price: 122.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.89 (19 reviews)

500GB Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5" IDE/ATA SSD Internal Drive Kit

for IDE/ATA desktop systems.

Two Upgrades in One - IDE/ATA performance today... with 285MB/s SATA future performance capability.

Near Instant Data Access: Complete solution for easy NO Drive Spin up...just lightning fast boots, loads, & access.
Starts Fast/Stays Fast: NO Speed Degradation & 41X faster performance.
More Rugged and Reliable: up to 100X more reliable than a hard drive.

The Mercury Electra™ 3G SSD line features:

Global wear leveling algorithms automatically distribute data evenly and manage program/erase count, maximizing SSD lifespan.
StaticDataRefresh manages free space, gradually refreshing data across the SSD over time, preventing data corruption.
Hardware BCH ECC corrects errors up to 66-bit/1KB for superior data retention and drive life.
S.M.A.R.T and TRIM command support.
Standby power benefits to extend battery life for laptop road warriors.

Add a technological supercharger to your existing Mac or PC with the Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5" IDE/ATA SSD Internal Drive Kit. It's the fastest, most reliable IDE/ ATA mechanism available to breathe lightning fast performance into that trusty machine and extend its usefulness.

Boot, load apps, and access data nearly instantaneously...tedious system responsiveness is a thing of the past! Enjoy award-winning ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling technologies that virtually eliminate any speed reduction over long term use of the drive. And with no moving parts to break or fail, the Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5" IDE/ATA SSD Internal Drive Kit offers uncommon ruggedness and lifetime longevity for desktop users with up to 100X greater reliability than traditional hard drives.

Highlights

One of the fastest Internal IDE/ATA 2.5″ SSDs available.
Power Efficiency

OWC's SSD vs HDD Shootout!

Seeing is believing! Watch a side-by-side
shootout between an SSD and HDD in a
PowerMac G4 loading Adobe's
Creative Suite on startup.

Complete Solution For Easy Install In 3.5″ Drive Bays

For easy Plug and Play install into standard 3.5″ IDE/ATA drive bays, the Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5" IDE/ATA SSD Internal Drive Kit comes complete with a mounting sled and a SATA to IDE/ATA connector cable. Utilizing the Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5" IDE/ATA SSD Internal Drive Kit as a future upgrade in a SATA bus equipped computer and experiencing the drives true performance potential of up to 285MB/s is a simple matter of removing the connector cable.

High Performance Internal Storage

Replace your conventional hard drive with a reliable solid state drive. Unlike traditional hard disk drives, OWC solid state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness.

COMPATIBILITY
INCLUDES
SPECS
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The Mercury EXTREME Pro is compatible with... Learn how to find your Mac's model ID

Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003)

(June, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac3,6

1.25GHz, dual 1.25GHz

Detailed specs

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Power Mac G4 (FW 800)

(January, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac3,6

1.0GHz, dual 1.25GHz, dual 1.42GHz

Detailed specs

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Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors)

(August, 2002)

Model ID: PowerMac3,6

dual 867MHz, dual 1.0GHz, dual 1.25GHz

Detailed specs

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Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver 2002 ED)

(August, 2002)

Model ID: PowerMac3,5

867MHz

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Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver 2002)

(January, 2002)

Model ID: PowerMac3,5

733MHz, 800MHz, 933MHz, dual 1.0GHz

Detailed specs

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iMac G4 (20-inch USB 2.0)

(November, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac6,3

1.25GHz

Detailed specs

iMac G4 (17-inch USB 2.0)

(September, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac6,1

1.25GHz

Detailed specs

iMac G4 (17-inch 1GHz)

(February, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac6,1

1.0GHz

Detailed specs

iMac G4 (15-inch USB 2.0)

(September, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac6,1

1.0GHz

Detailed specs

iMac G4 (15-inch Early 2003)

(February, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac4,2

800Mhz

Detailed specs

iMac G4 (17-inch Flat Panel)

(July, 2002)

Model ID: PowerMac4,5

800Mhz

Detailed specs

eMac (2005)

(May, 2005)

Model ID: PowerMac6,4

1.42GHz

Detailed specs

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eMac (USB 2.0)

(April, 2004)

Model ID: PowerMac6,4

1.0GHz, 1.25GHz

Detailed specs

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eMac

(October, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac4,4

1.0GHz

Detailed specs

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eMac (ATI Graphics)

(May, 2003)

Model ID: PowerMac4,4

800MHz, 1.0GHz

Detailed specs

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eMac

(April, 2002)

Model ID: PowerMac4,4

700MHz, 800MHz

Detailed specs

Install Videos

Xserve (Cluster Node)

(March, 2003)

Model ID: RackMac1,2

dual 1.33GHz

Detailed specs

Xserve

(February, 2003)

Model ID: RackMac1,2

1.33GHz, dual 1.33GHz

Detailed specs

Xserve

(May, 2002)

Model ID: RackMac1,1

1.0GHz, dual 1.0GHz

Detailed specs

PC Desktops

Compatible with Intel / AMD Process based PCs capable with the specifications listed above.

Computers below only recognize drive space up to 128GB*

Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver)

(July, 2001)

Model ID: PowerMac3,5

733MHz, 867MHz, dual 800MHz

Detailed specs

Install Videos

Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio)

(January, 2001)

Model ID: PowerMac3,4

466MHz, 533MHz, dual 533MHz, 667MHz, 733MHz

Detailed specs

Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)

(July, 2000)

Model ID: PowerMac3,3

400GHz, dual 450MHz, dual 500GHz

Detailed specs

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Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics)

(September, 1999)

Model ID: PowerMac3,1

350MHz, 400MHz, 450GHz, 500GHz

Detailed specs

Install Videos

Power Mac G4 (PCI Graphics)

(August, 1999)

Model ID: PowerMac1,2

350MHz, 400MHz

Detailed specs

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Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White)

(January, 1999)

Model ID: PowerMac1,1

300MHz, 350MHz, 400MHz, 450MHz

Detailed specs

Install Videos

iMac G4 (Flat Panel)

(January, 2002)

Model ID: PowerMac4,2

700MHz, 800Mhz

Detailed specs

iMac (Summer 2001)

(July, 2001)

Model ID: PowerMac4,1

500MHz, 600Mhz, 700MHz

Detailed specs

iMac (Early 2001)

(Febuary, 2001)

Model ID: PowerMac4,1

400MHz, 500Mhz, 600MHz

Detailed specs

iMac (Summer 2000)

(July, 2000)

Model ID: PowerMac2,2

300MHz, 400MHz, 450Mhz, 500Mhz

Detailed specs

iMac (Slot Loading)

(October, 1999)

Model ID: PowerMac2,1

350MHz, 400MHz

Detailed specs

iMac (5 Flavors)

(January, 1999)

Model ID: iMac,1

266MHz, 333MHz

iMac (Bondi Blue)

(May, 1998)

Model ID: iMac,1

233MHz

PC Desktops

Compatible with Intel / AMD Process based PCs capable with the specifications listed above.

*The computers listed use an ATA-5 standard controller on the motherboard. This standard only recognizes drive capacities up to 128GB. The IDE/ATA computer use the ATA-6 standard which can recognize capacities larger than 128GB. This is completely different hardware, and there aren't any firmware updates that will allow an ATA-5 controller to see more than 128GB. Usually this is a common problem to computers that were available prior to 2003.

Includes

OWC Mercury Electra™ 3G SSD
OWC 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Adapter Bracket Tray
SATA to IDE adapter

500GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Controller

Silicon Motion SM2259XT with 3% over-provisioning

NAND Flash Components

Synchronous Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash

Form Factor

Standard 7mm 2.5"

Interface

SATA 3.0 Gb/s

Capacity¹

500GB Useable Capacity
Total Flash Memory Components: 512GB
12GB Allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction

Formatted Capacity¹

466 GiB

RAID Support

Yes

SMART Attributes

Standard²

Native Command Queuing

Up to 32 simultaneous commands

RoHS Compliant

Yes

Reach Certification

Yes

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)

7 mm (0.276 in)

Width (max)

70.06 mm (2.758 in)

Length (max)

100.12 mm (3.941 in)

Weight

60.0 g (0.13 lbs)

Reliability

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

1,500,000 hours

Security

ATA Security Feature Command Set and Password Login Support

Error Correction

Built-in ECC

TRIM Support

OS Dependent

Wear Leveling

Supported

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

Less than 1 sector per 10¹⁵ bits read

Compatibility

Mac OS Compatibility

Yes

PC OS Compatibility

Yes

Other Requirements

Requires a Mac, PC, or drive enclosure with an available SATA drive bay. SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) or faster required for best performance.

Performance

Average Access Time

<0.1 ms

Sequential Read (Max)

274MB/s

Sequential Write (Max)

260MB/s

Power

Active (Max)

2.1W

Idle Mode (Max)

0.1W

Environmental (Operating)

Shock

1500 G max at 0.5 ms

Temperature (°F)

32°F to 158°F

Temperature (°C)

0°C to 70°C

Humidity

5% to 95% non-condensing

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Shock

1500 G max at 0.5 ms

Temperature (°F)

-40°F to 185°F

Temperature (°C)

-40°C to 85°C

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

Seek (Typical)

0.0 bels

1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
Temperature reporting is currently an unsupported feature because due to the operating characteristics of SSDs, it is highly unlikely one would ever exceed an OWC Mercury SSD's stated operating temperature ceiling of 158F/70C. However, we are looking into supporting this feature in the future via a firmware update. Firmware updates can be found here: http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/OWC/SSD.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n SSDMXLE500 UPC#: 718122782376

Reviews

"Remarkable Performance" - Dan Knight, Low End Mac - 40GB

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.8 / 5 17 out of 19 (89%) reviewers would recommend this product

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Reviewer: ClairelyClaire Location: Pacific Northwest Age: 35-44 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 4/5 Disappointed in the work required to get it running on a tray load Five Fruits iMac G3 April 30, 2020 I bought this for a 333MHz Grape iMac G3 (tray, not slot). Setup ended up being nontrivial and required a lot of extra removal and reinstallation of the SSD. I'm not sure if the problems I was having were due to other hardware on the machine - I recently inherited it from a friend, and it still had its original 6GB hard drive. Everything worked great before I did this upgrade.

I ended up having to put the SSD in an external enclosure and install OS 9 to it from another Mac, then reinstall it in the iMac. Somehow, through all of the extra work I had to do, the CD-ROM on the iMac has stopped functioning entirely. It powers on but can't be seen by the OS.

I think if this drive is listed as supporting older Macs, maybe OWC can offer an option that pre-initializes the disk so it can be used immediately. I think part of my problem was that the drive wasn't formatted, and my iMac can't boot off a partition larger than 8GB. With the uninitialized, unformatted drive installed, I couldn't even get the CD-ROM to boot - I just got a floppy disk with a flashing question mark after the boot chime. Once I'd formatted the SSD with an 8GB OS partition, it was bootable, but since then, the CD-ROM has been invisible to OS 9, and I can't seem to boot off a CD at all now. The drive boots if set to slave or master, but not if set to cable select (saw that in another review, that seems to only apply to slot loading fruit iMac G3s).

TL;DR preconfigure the drive for old Macs as an option on this product. It would save a lot of headaches, I think. Either that or my iMac is possessed.

Also, I REALLY would have liked to see a custom power cable between the adapter and the iMac. Now I have a big wad of unnecessary matrox wiring stuffed behind the drive. Definitely something to consider adding. I'd also recommend putting a panel behind the through-hole solder points for the IDE connector, so that it's easier to get enough leverage to plug/unplug the cable without risking bending any pins. Those solder points are stabby and hurt.

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Reviewer: brushworks Location: Indiana Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Brought New Life to my G4 MDD April 22, 2018 I never complained about the performance of my aging PowerMac G4 MDD, but I needed a new hard drive and thought since I'd already installed SSDs in my newer Macs, I wanted to try this one. This product breathed new life into my old machine. "Speed bumping" would be putting it mildly. I wish I'd purchased three more to fill up all its drive bays it's that good! Too bad they're no longer available. If they were, I wouldn't have that feeling of regret.

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Reviewer: Shisack Location: Switzerland Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Great product March 18, 2018 The delivery was speedy and the product as expected. Easy to fix as internal drive good performance despite the limits of the use controller. Works with iOS as well

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Reviewer: Robby Location: Georgia Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Bought two of these kits. EXCELLENT April 4, 2017 So my goal was to take a old G4 powermac (I purchased off eBay) and install decades old software that I had kept around on a dusty hard drive. I figured if this was going to be my dedicated 'mac from the past', it should have reliable, fast (relatively - for that model) storage.

So I bought two of the 120gb SSD's along with the SATA to IDE converters. The beige G4 has two IDE connectors coming off the same cable, so the first one needs to be the master drive, the second needs to be the slave.

The SATA to IDE converters have a nice little switch that allows you to choose between Master, Slave, and Auto-Detect.

At any rate ... it works perfectly! I installed OS-9 on one hard drive, and OS X 10.4.11 (the latest this G4 can handle) and everything is smooth fast (all things considered) and quiet.

Great product for bring an old dinasaur back to life, and tons of fun.

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Reviewer: MacBrian Location: Wichita, KS Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 New life for old Macs December 27, 2016 I purchased this drive to replace the old mechanical boot drive on my 17" iMac G4. I use my G4 now as the world's coolest 17" photo frame -- with around 10,000 photos on rotation through the Mac OS Screen saver. The dome base and goose-neck-lamp arm on the G4 is like a futuristic yet mid-century-modern piece of tech art! Best photo frame EVER! I also have a piece of audio recording software that makes my G4 like a "DVR" for streaming audio. It lets me time-shift some of my favorite radio shows to enjoy later, on-demand. This SSD gave my old G4 a whole new life. Boot-up time with an SSD is extremely fast now, and the responsiveness of the Mac across the board is MUCH snappier than it used to be.

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Reviewer: Smartypants Location: Ottawa, Canada Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Excellent Service & Value September 19, 2016 Ordering was simple, I called with a few questions and the staff was friendly and helpful. I bought this to replace the HD on my old G4, which runs a pre-press flatbed scanner. The OWC HD made the G4 run much faster and smoother than before, and installation was easy, thanks to the available video instructions. I live in Canada, so shipping is usually expensive and a hassle. OWC offered trouble-free shipping at an excellent price. Overall, an excellent experience, and I'd definitely buy from them again.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Germany Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 4/5 Very fast, easy to install, BUT: April 29, 2016 I Installed the SSD. Very easy, good working adpater (do not forget to change it into "cable select"! BUT the iMac G3 400 Mhz DV SE freezes after waking up from sleepmode. The spiningwheel appears and the system is frozen. After restart all works fine again. I hope OWC will offer me some firmware to fix the problem.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from (*) 60GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Xcellant February 5, 2016 Xcellant

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Rochester, NH Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Like Greased Lightning! November 23, 2015 Bought this SSD to upgrade an old SONY laptop from 2006 era, mainly to get away from the heat generation issue from the OEM HDD. The laptop cannot be upgraded above XP because of graphics issues, but no matter. This little beauty takes the Sony VGN-FS742/W from a cold start to Internet access in an astonishing 42 seconds -- and that's WITH all the performance-choking updates from Microsoft. It was the perfect choice for me to resurrect this otherwise moribund laptop to a new lease on life.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 240GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 4/5 Fast. Really fast. November 3, 2015 As usual for SSD, the boot time of a Mac gets much, much shorter, even in an old G3 blue & white, or a G4 AGP graphics. Before installing this SSD, startup took almost forever, now it is about half a minute or less.

The only improvement that could be added would be a mounting bracket to better fit the existing 5.25" hard disk bays.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 120GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Gamer Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 This a great product October 29, 2015 This works in mac os 9.2.2 and mac os x 10.4.11 and mac os x 10.5.8. When format it in os x. I format the drive at 80GB for mac os 9.2.2 and and mac os x 10.4.11 and 367GB for mac os x 10.5.8. Both partition work in all systems. My computer is power mac G4 1.25G mirror door 2003. The drive is 480 GB.

This review is from 480GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Central Iowa Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Good drive for a legacy computer September 27, 2015 My G4 recently had an issue with the boot drive becoming corrupted. OWC was my first stop to find something compatible with my Mac. This drive fit my budget and was easy to install. I have yet to fully implement the drive - meaning I have not put everything on it I planned to, but it has worked without a hitch and I expect it to continue to do so. I had to consult with customer support for an error on my part and they graciously helped to resolve the issue. Great service, as always, from OWC!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 120GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Los Angeles Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 One word: AWESOME!! May 23, 2015 I'm a PPC G4 Dual 1.25 user here. I've been using regular 250GB internal HDs (qty.4) but got tired of them failing (multiple times). I'm really conscious about backing up data. I normally maintain backups for my OS and a separate backup for music/personal files. This way I'm completely covered. But it's really a pain, not to mention the probability of both the main drive and backups failing at the same time!!! It has happened to me before.

After tiring of failures and the repeated process above I just said to myself "why not try the Mercury Pro by OWC?" I must admit I was skeptical about ordering the 480GB, I'm familiar with the old school internal drives and thought there was a capacity limit on drive capacity the G4 could handle???

I used carbon copy cloner to clone my drive and let me tell you the Mercury Pro 480GB is everything it claims to be!!! Awesome performance, small footprint, I was really surprised. Needless to say I immediately ordered another one. I've consolidated all my data and the extra drive will be the clone. Time will tell as far as drive failure is concerned but based on the specs I shouldn't be as concerned when compared against my old 250GB drives ;)

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 480GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 5-6 months

Rating: 5/5 Stunning SSD Transformation! March 24, 2015 I simply plugged in my new OWC 240Gb Mercury Legacy Pro SSD into my dual 1.73Ghz Power Mac G4 QuickSilver 2002 and got fantastic performance!!! I used Carbon Copy Cloner to format and create the identical new drive, and kept the old drive as a backup. The included adapter made everything a breeze.

Now the computer cold boots in 14 seconds, loads Firefox version 31.5.0 in under 1 second (actually TenFourFoxG4 which is identical to the latest Firefox Intel version), loads any major app in the CS4 Suite in about 3 seconds, Google Earth in 2 seconds, The Entire Microsoft Office 2008 Suite in 9 seconds, and Acrobat Pro 9 in under 1 second!

The included SpeedTools Utilities shows SSD Drive speeds in excess of 120Gb/sec, easily 5 times as fast as the old hard drive on random reads and writes, and more than ten times as fast on regular fragmented files.

FANTASTIC!

Great job OWC!!!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 240GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Austria Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Built into iMac G4 800 MHz... December 22, 2014 ...and working perfectly Greez, Tom

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 240GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Groningen, the Netherlands Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 perfectly suited for my ends, no problems installing November 28, 2014 I ordered the 60GB ssd to replace the IDE 3.5' hd in my Korg D888 mixer/recorder. Installation went smoothly - other than having to reformat the ssd to MSDOS fat 32. With that done, the ssd was regocnised by the D888 and worked right away, no questions asked. :) Since this device is for sound recording, having an absolutely quiet ssd instead of a slightly humming HD is a brilliant upgrade. Love it.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from (*) 60GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Vermont Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Fast Fast Fast November 23, 2014 I have an older 1.2 GHz PC. The hard drive was starting to fail. I made an image "just in time" and put the 120 GB PATA-equipped 3.5" drive in place. I partitioned it two ways, and put the image on the first partition. My boot speed went from 4 minutes for a full boot down to 55 seconds. Just incredible. The system runs cooler using less power, and makes a lot less noise: no clackity clack of an old HDD desperately trying to read failing sectors. I was so impressed I bought a 60 GB version for yet another older computer serving in a different application. This is a great upgrade kit if you're about to lose a hard disk drive or are sick of slow system response to boots and internet browsing!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 120GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Moscow Age: 35-44 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great disk June 15, 2014 great drive. silent, infallible, fast, reliable, plus excellent compatibility with older equipment. suit a wide range of users. 100% would recommend to all!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 480GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Atlanta, GA

Rating: 5/5 Revived 1st Gen Apple TV May 1, 2014 I know, I know, 1st gen AppleTV. What better way to revive it by putting a SSD in it. I know, I am still limited by the IDE throughput, but it's faster than the ID hard drive that was in there before. The AppleTV isn't stock either, its got the Crystalbuntu software on it along with the Broadcom Crystal HD decoder. This SSD helps fine tune the last bit of lagginess that the underpowered 1st ten AppleTV was exhibiting.

This was the only laptop sized IDE based SSD that I was able to find. Leave it to OWC to think that someone would want one, but they did and I thank them for that.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 120GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Ann Arbor, MI Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional

Rating: 5/5 .. but not for a Mac Cube January 20, 2014 This seems to be an excellent substitute for a failed IDE drive in an old Mac, so I purchased one to put into a Mac Cube but, given the very tight tolerances inside that Mac it doesn't quite fit. Other Macs I've worked usually have some slack in the cables and room to deal with offset connectors, and I've no reason to doubt that, if it could be hooked up, this SSD would as good as advertised.

But with the Cube, the 10-12mm offset that the IDE adapter card introduces, pushes a little extra cable under the Airport card door right over the IDE connector, and you can't close the door over the displaced connector and the excess cable. I'm talking millimeters, but it's "no go".

Disappointing.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from (*) 60GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: South Carolina Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Worked flawlessly in old eMac February 13, 2013 Without a doubt, this is overkill for an eMac (1.25GHz G4, 2 GB RAM). However, with IDE drives scarce, and my need to make this eMac as usable as possible for a client on a limited budget, I opted to use this SSD kit. Installation of the kit, per se, is easy, though putting any drive into an eMac is a challenge, necessitating an almost-complete teardown. Nonetheless, after an hour of work, the drive was installed, and I booted the machine to a DVD. I then imaged over an OS/App configuration (OS X 10.5.8) and tested. Worked flawlessly. Microsoft Word 2008 launches in 5 seconds, undoubtedly limited by the machine's architecture, not this drive. But for an 10-year-old machine, that's impressive.

As for the drive itself, construction quality seems superb. Fine, classy fit-n-finish. The drive is SATA, of course, but the supplied Addonics SATA to IDE adapter was easy to use and worked without issue, even allowing master-slave-CS choice. Everything fit into the supplied 2.5- to 3.5-inch bracket adapter easily, and the drive showed up in Disk Utility without a hitch.

Only complaint: No screws were provided, and although I have a wealth of screws, finding some that were long enough - but not too long - to mount the drive to the supplied bracket was a surprising pain in the neck. I wish OWC would supply screws to mount the drive to the bracket; mounting the bracket to the machine was no issue, as I used the previous drive's screws.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from (*) 60GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

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Reviewer: George56 Location: Javetville, Ontario, Canada Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Noob Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Really glad I did business with OWC! August 15, 2011 I was a bit worried over replacing my G4's HD myself after I received the 40GB Mercury EXTREME Pro. Almost chickened out and sent it back unopened! One quick call to OWC Support and I got my nerve back. After using a leaf-blower (!!!) on my back deck to clear out all the dust out of the fans and grates of this 7 year old computer, installing the SSD was a snap! Result: Lower operation temp. overall, SMOOOOOTH operation and complete stability. Could not be happier!!! Considering the 1.25 Ghz single core CPU ain't exactly a speed boot, I now don't get "spinning balls" ever and no more whine of the old drive!

Highly recommended both product & service!!! George

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 40GB OWC Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit.

Response from MacSales.com, Marketing October 26, 2011 While OWC does encourage keeping your computer equipment clean as part of a http://blog.macsales.com/4813-tech-tips-spring-cleaning ">regular maintenance plan, the use of a leaf blower is not a recommended substitute for a can of compressed air.

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