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Since the cable is female, it would not have fit if the IDE connector on the adapter was also female! Parallel ATA (PATA) aka ATA aka IDE (the connectors on 3.5 inch cables look almost the same, so take them as a reference)… The IDE connector for the cable would have had to be male, not female.

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This is the time to take a close look at Serial ATA (SATA)… Since the connector on the HDD/SDD is with the pins visible: if the adapter card has the same, it’s most likely the wrong adapter. One way to distinguish one from the other is to check if the SATA connector is male or female.

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But we want it exact opposite, because the mainboard of the Mac Mini G4 still has a IDE interface and we want to connect a modern SATA drive to it!

You have to be extremely careful to get the right adapter! Most adapters are for the other way around: to connect an existing IDE drive to a SATA connector on the mainboard.

any 2.5 inch SATA SSD, but remove the circuit board holding the flash chips from the caseĪgain be warned that this will void the warranty of the SSD! Parts.

The solution to put a fast SSD into a Mac mini G4 is to remove it from its case and use the IDE/SATA adapter: Some very large capacity SSDs use more space inside the SSD case. Most SSDs however are very small on the inside, half of the size of the case, or even more than half, could be empty. The only real solution was to get the SSD out of its 2.5 inch case. But even with the smallest IDE/SATA adapter the place is too scarce for a standard size 2.5 inch HDD/SSD. Thinking about it, this was to be expected. With the 2.5 inch ATA cable (44-pin) it is even worse. I tried at least two different IDE/SATA adapters, which were presumably as small as they can be, with and without using an additional cable. …will void the warranty of your SATA SSD.

IDE/ATA 44-pin cable, around 15cm but at least 2cmĪnd then I found that it still doesn’t fit! The only real solution….

IDE 2.5 inch (44-pin) to SATA adapter, smallest possible size.

A 2.5 inch drive is about 10cm long, so the cable would have to be a little longer. But how then connect the SATA connector of the HDD/SSD with the 44-pin IDE connector on the other side? The solution could have been quite simple: use a 44-pin ATA/IDE cable.

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So I though that it might be a possible solution to install the SATA HDD/SSD turned by 180° with the connector towards the speaker in front. A show stopper would be if the adapter doesn’t fit in at all, because its connector is placed as such that the adapter is displaced in relation to the HDD/SSD, making it impossible to fit them both at the same time. Another problem could be the height of the adapter and the resulting displacement of the 2.5 inch HDD or SSD. Such an adapter would therefore have to be very small in dimensions. The problem: the Mac mini G4 doesn’t provide much space for additional adapters. So, a solution is to use an adapter to convert from 44-pin IDE to SATA. That is very unfortunate, especially since the Mac mini G4 came with drives of 40 to 80 GB capacity, which is not much compared to today’s standards (2015).īut, once you decide to upgrade, you face the current market situation, where IDE 44-pin 2.5 inch HDDs are much more expensive than regular 2.5 inch SATA HDDs or even 2.5 inch SATA SSDs! The strategy, in theory… One of the problems of the original Mac mini (2005, G4 PowerPC processor) is that it still uses 2.5 inch parallel ATA (PATA) drives.