I think your facts are a bit off. The "superdrive" in macbooks require significantly more power than a SSD. When you burn a dvd using the superdrive, it requi

I think your facts are a bit off. The "superdrive" in macbooks require significantly more power than a SSD. When you burn a dvd using the superdrive, it requires between 40-50W of power. Even the most power hungry SSDs during heavy sequential write mode use less than 5W of power. If anything, the optical drive bay needs to provide more power than the HDD side of things. It's more likely that the ebay-knockoff adapters were poorly made than it having anything to do with power requirements.