chenyang Memory Card Adapter CF Compact Flash Memory Card to 50pin 1.8 Inch IDE Hard Drive SSD Converter Adapter for Toshiba

Works great for retro laptops! Using one on an old Toshiba 486 laptop and another on a PowerBook 3400c.

Looks great but Amazon never delivered and no way to contest!

I got this for a 5.5 gen iPod 30gb and I wish I had ordered the flash mod, sat there for over and hour getting nothing but dead drive messages for about two hours until it finally worked then I got dead drive messages, didn’t even finish restoring!!! This thing is more delicate then tissue paper, one little tiny movement of the drive from the ribbon cable and you’re screwed and it never even felt like it would fully clamp down. You’d probably have to electrical tape this thing down so it won’t move but it’s so thick it barley leaves any room inside. Good luck closing it without messing it up and having to tuck it behind the battery to fit. Not worth the shenanigans.

This CY CF card to ZIF converter worked perfectly for converting a Creative Zen Vision M MP3 player with a 30 GB hard drive to a 128 GB Micro SD card. (Note: The player only recognizes ~120 GB – likely a firmware limitation.)I had to install the firmware on the SD card using another Creative Zen Vision M (I think there was a problem with the motherboard on this player - the Creative firmware update utility did not recognize this player for some reason) and transplanted the SD Card and converter board back into this player. Once the firmware was installed, the first player worked great.After the first Creative Zen Vision M was working, I tried installing a Kinspec SSD in the second player. I tried using a Kingspec 128 GB SSD, which had worked for converting two Zune 30’s and a Zune 80 in the past. The firmware installed successfully using the Creative firmware update utility, however, files (music or video) could only be transferred to the player in ~100 MB chunks. Any more than that, and the player would disconnect from my computer and need to be reset. Once loaded, the files would play correctly, but I don’t have the patience to transfer 60 GB of music and videos 100 MB at a time. I replaced the Kinspec SSD with this converter board, a QUMOX Compact Flash to SD card adapter, and a 128 GB micro SD card. The Creative Zen Vision M runs much faster with the SD card and seems to have better battery life. In the end I have two working Creative Zen Vision M’s running 128 GB SD cards.

Put a sd to cf adapter in it to update an old iPod 4th gen. Don’t know why but it only works with 64gb and under... it might be an issue with cf adapter. I only need 64gb - I’m a happy camper!

I was able to remove a solder bridge before I applied power. I saw the bridge without a magnifying lens. I have since inspected the entire board with a magnifying lens.

Works well in iPod Gen 3. The jumper needs to be slightly bent at an angle to clear the case.

It’s good to watch a few videos before you first flash mod. I bend the jumper over and cut the two solder joints down a bit then cover with kapton tape. You will have to cut the little alignment piece from the iPod ribbon, the one that fits into the hard drive hole to align the pins. Read the board it tells you which pins to align. Go from right to left and you will be fine.I used SanDisk extreme CF and the iflash cf to SD in 64G without issue. I format the cards to exfat and worked great. I’ve modded 3 iPods so far without issue.