acer aspire one memory upgrade instructions

The tricky part was to find a good location to cut a hole in the case and mount the eSATA socket without interference. Then I connected the eSATA socket to the traces of the missing SATA connector – that’s it! Basically I salvaged an eSATA socket from a desktop bracket and some thin 2-conductor shielded microphone cable from inside a broken laptop – shielded cable is important because SATA uses LVDS. Since I replaced the slower 8 GB SSD with a faster 60 GB hard drive on the PATA interface and the SATA interface was still unused, I decided to add an external eSATA connector to my Aspire One :) The HDD version features a standard 2.5″ SATA hard drive connector and a modified casing, but no ZIF connector… The SDD version features the same ZIF connector found on 1.8″ PATA hard drives, but no SATA connector. There are two basic versions of the original Aspire One – both use the same motherboard, and both support a PATA interface and a SATA interface.

As usual, I’m not responsible if you damage anything. Here’s another video and additional pictures that cover the process. In this final part, I demonstrate how to add eSATA to the Aspire One. In part 3, I showed you how to add internal 3G (specifically HSDPA)… In part 2, I showed how to replace the SSD with a 1.8″ PATA hard drive and how to reassemble the Aspire One. In part 1, I showed how to take the Aspire One apart, how to upgrade the RAM, and how to add internal Bluetooth. Welcome to part 4 of a multi-part post on moddng the Acer Aspire One!

Acer aspire one memory upgrade instructions