Chapter One: The Arrival
Electrostatic striptease:
And here's the money-shot. Caption: "Plug compatible"
Here are the Installation "Guidelines":
3. Schliessen Sie die SSD-Festplatte ihrem Computertype entsprechend an:
(1) Desktop: Verbinden Sie
Wait, sorry, the instructions are one of those huge posters folded like a service-station map (remember those?) and cramming 27 languages...Spanish...Turkish...several ideographic languages...ah, here:
3. According to the machine type:
(1) Desktop: Connect the SanDisk SATA SSD to the SATA data cable and insert the SATA cable into the SATA connector on the motherboard. Connect the SATA SSD drive to the SATA power connector. Once you have installed the SanDisk SATA SSD into your Desktop close the case and then reconnect power to the desktop.
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4. SATA Uses a point-to-point protocol, therefore, no setting of jumpers...is required.
5. Power on the system to verify that the installation was successful.
I haven't tried it yet, but it sure sounds like SanDisk thinks it's perfectly plug-compatible with an mechanical drive.
I'll let ya know. Can't get to it today...