DRIVESLED SMR Mac Pro Tower SSD Drive Sled 2.5 Adapter by Wegener Media

Works perfectly. My Mac Pro is one of the ones that the tabs needed to be bent slightly to be more flat to allow the drive to slide in easier. Perfect solution and you can't beat the price. Using the existing drivesled makes better sense than the other adapters that replace the entire drivesled. Mine was delivered with only 3 of what looks like (from the photo) should be 5 screws, So I had to hunt around for two other screws. Great customer follow-up from the manufacturer. Top-shelf customer support and a top-shelf product. I would buy again when I need another 2.5" drive.

I have a Mac Pro that I tried to use this in and it is a major pain to try and make it work. The sled this installs on doesn't fit right and after fighting with this for an hour, I tried to install it in the mac. That didn't work either. I could not get the sled to insert without major force and the SSD never seated in the motherboard. I removed this from the sled and tried removing the rubber grommets on the sled to make it work better, but it was only slightly better. Don't waste your money.

This is a really useful and inexpensive solution that simply works! I have numerous SSDs that I am transferring from my Windows PC, so obviously was looking for something simple to install, and wouldn't cost a fortuneAs I say, this works.. .nothing fancy, but fancy is not at all necessary in this case. It's a perfect solution for me, and I thoroughly recommend it as an option.

You would think that a Mac Pro with drive sleds would be the easiest installation on the planet. Spoilers: It wasn’t. Rubber washers or not, both of these adapters took considerable work to align and even get to go in to my 2010 tower. They work, but don’t get them if you frequently swap hard drives.

After deciding on ordering an SSD for my 2006 Mac Pro I looked into a well known brand’s bracket but was confused as to why you needed to plug an SSD into more electronics that then plug in to the internal SATA slot. I read the reviews and watched some videos on this one and decided to give it a go, fully expecting to return it out of frustration. Well, it took about 15 minutes to mount the SSD onto the tray and install it into the drive bay. It seems that the trick is to make sure that everything lines up before giving it the final push in to the slot. It was pretty tight but I didn’t need to do any bending. If It had come to that I would have returned the tray. Could this be designed a bit better for easier installation? Maybe. Does it work? It did for me. And there’s no unnecessary electronics between my SSD and the SATA port. I’ll be buying another for the 2nd SSD I put in this Mac Pro.

Of COURSE I have one of the Mac Pro towers this won't fit in. The item did come with instructions to call the manufacturer if that's the case (the instructions didn't mention whether or not the problem was solvable) but frankly I don't have time for that.

These are a good value for what they accomplish - some other solutions sell for 3x as much so these are worth considering. Getting the first one to line up and slide perfectly requires a few extra minutes but no special skills are required. It's nice to be able to use SSD's or 2.5" hard disks conveniently in a Mac Pro tower. For most computers, no single upgrade will provide as much perceivable increase in speed as switching from a spinning disk to an SSD.

I have three Mac Pros, two 2010 5,1's and a 2009 4,1. These sleds do not fit and of my computers without bending the drive sled receiving tabs in my computer, bending the tabs sounds easy however it's nearly impossible to get an accurate bend on the tabs that need it due to accessibility. The rear ones are nearly impossible to reach especially on drive bay 1. Not to mention changing around the drive sled rubber grommets and screws as required is a hassle. I ended up bending the tabs in my computer as required, the sleds worked poorly, every time you slide them in and out the aluminum on the sled gets scratched deeply, leaving metal particles behind. If you do not bend the tabs correctly you might end up forcing the drive into it's connector and if something is not lined up right you might break the drive sata connectors or worse the ones on the computer side! I did my best to bend my computer back to normal, these are going back. I opted for the much sleeker aluminum and pc board adapters out there for about the same price (Fenlink I think is the brand), they fit smooth as silk and work perfectly. I rarely post, but I really wish I had known before I purchased. Sorry guys.