Connecting SATA drives to a Macbook

Given that the MacBook has no ExpressCard slot, is there a way to connect a SATA drive to a MacBook?

The only way would be if you have a SATA-to-FW or SATA-to-USB converter; or if your SATA drive is also a network drive. Exactly what make/model drive are you talking about?

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I own a MacBook Pro Mid 2009 and I'm running OSX Mavericks with Windows 8.1 Pro Bootcamp. I wanted to upgrade to an SSD drive and after reading the great reviews on Amazon, I purchased a Kingston 240GB SSD 2.5" V300 SATA 3.
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Hi
Thanks for your reply.
Yes the Acronis software is Windows but I read through a lot of reviews on the Kingston SSD SATA 3 drives Amazon and from what I can gather, after removing the original drives and installing that in the 2.5" caddy and then installing the new SD drive in the Macbook, those buyers then used the software to boot from and clone the source drive to the new drive.
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As the title says, whenever i connect more than one sata driver (hdd or dvd) i get te A2 boot freeze....
Already changed cables, hard drives, and problem persist!
Sorry for my bad english, not my main language.
Board: MSI b85-g43
Bios: c.40
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