CDL Micro "8400800017901" SSD-Rail 2.5-Inch Hard Drive Cradle for 3.5-Inch Drive Bays,Black

Works great, top rail was cracked on my shipment, but I used it anyway. I was only installing one SSD

Gr8 buy

Plastic. Can handle 2 SSD drives. Overpriced.

For the price it should be made of metal but its not, another piece of plastic really thin plastic that cost all of ten cents to make and sells for $13.00I hope the maker reads this post and drops the price by at least half and if they don't do yourself a favor and make your own with just a piece of 1/2" plywood and save your money.

This £2 marvel has been sitting on my desk for months hoping I'll find a use for it. Unfortunately it doesn't do the job of adapting a 2.5" drive for a 3.5" hole. You can use it to fit secure a 2.5" drive into a case where a 3.5" drive used to fit, but that's not the whole story.The problem is the position. The connectors on SATA/SAS 2.5" and 3.5" drives are interchangeable, so with the right shape piece of plastic you can fit a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" cage and the connectors line up. In other words, the connectors of the small drive must be in the same position as they would be on the large drive. These aren't - they're left dead centre (see pictures), which means it won't mate with the connectors at the end of a drive bay.If you're using some desktop PC where the drives are attached using flexible cables, fine. This should work. But it's not a format adapter, it just allows you to secure a drive in the case somehow. A pity, as with a bit of thought in the design this could have been very useful and I'd have bought hundreds.Given this is cheap, and has utility, I would normally have given it more than one star regardless of having wasted my time. However, it specifically says it's for "servers" on the box, and it very definitely isn't - desktops with cable connections only!

This is just a simple HDD or SSD caddy for fitting a 2.5 inch drive into a 3.5 inch bay. I bought this for a friend as I had upgraded his old 3.5 inch HDD to a 2.5 inch SSD but had trouble keeping it in the case due to the size difference.I wasn't overly keen on sticking the drive in with sellotape so decided to do it properly and buy this. It's cheap, it fits great and it's super easy to screw a 2.5 inch drive in and then just slot this into place. Keeps my friends drive safe and secure.

I wanted to fit a new(ish) 2.5" drive into the 3.5" secondary disk bay of a compact PC.This adapter did everything and was very easy to install. It would hold two 2.5" laptop drives and fitted snugly into the 3.5" bay. It's made of light plastic, but firmly holds the small light drive. Until it's screwed down it's a bit flexible, and this makes it easy to get the position just right.Very pleased!

This mount is quite flexible in the number of ways you can mount the smaller drive up/down backwards/forwards.Surprisingly this can be important depending on the positioning of the larger drive. It is also made out of plastic which also gives a bit of flex which can be useful. The other advantage of being plastic is that it can be cut or trimmed, it's not unusual to find that business machines from the like of Dell or Compaq will have custom made cable looms that don't have much spare length and that ability to be trimmed can be the difference between working or not.

These are the best mounting brackets for SSD's that I have come across, because they will work for virtually any computer. Many of the others will not work in computers which have quick release clips, trays, side mounting etc. This bracket has all the same holes in the same places that a normal 3.5" hard drive has, and therefore its a simple task to transfer the screws to the right places. Its made of plastic, which is perfect because you can easily enlarge the holes if you need (I have done this to use them in Lenovo SFF pc's) or you can cut the plastic sides if you need to modify it to fit (as I have done to fit SSD's into iMacs). I have yet to find a computer that this bracket cannot be used in. By comparison I have several brackets from different manufacturers that don't fit the vast majority of machines (specifically the cheap Corsair brackets) The plastic is perfectly strong enough - don't even worry about that.