SATA Disk to IDE/PATA 40Pin Motherboard Converter Adapter PCBA for Desktop & 2.5 3.5" Hard Disk Drive

Worked better than the StarTech for my original Xbox.

I have a legacy circa 2005 Pentium 4 based system that I want to keep running as is because it has specialized software running on it that cannot be re-installed on a fresh OS. It's running Windows XP SP2. The motherboard, in addition to the IDE HDD ports, has 2 SATA I ports. These are on the VIA chipset and they do not downgrade a SATA II device or higher down to SATA I. It's SATA one or the ports don't work. At first I set the jumpers on a SATA II HDD to force SATA I mode and that did work. But then I wondered if using this adapter and running the IDE cable to the new SSD that I cloned the original HDD to would be faster than the HDD SATA I drive. The answer is yes, this adapter with the SSD on the IDE channel is faster. One thing that is very interesting is that the original drive and the SSD have 3 NTFS partitions on them. The 2nd and 3rd partitions run significantly faster than the OS partion in CrystalDiskMark. I even re-arranged the partitions so that the C: partitiion/boot is 40GB and only 7% used and the CrystalDiskMark results aren't any better, so I guess that was not the reason. I don't know why the partitions produce different speed results. But the adapter works great. You have to be somewhat careful not to break it but now I have a new drive with my specialized apps on a 20 year old Windows XP system and it should run fine and at least 3x faster for a long time... (Don't worry, it's not connected to the internet.)

Used in a old WIN98 nostalgic PC that I have where my IDE hard drive was failing. Had a small SATA HD laying around and used this adaptor and so far it has worked really well. Hope it last and also I had to used electrical tape to hold it onto the SATA HD as connector would easily come off when I moved the PC to work on it.

Bought one of these and it didn't work (drive was recognized but data transfers froze), but I got a replacement right away and the replacement is perfect. It works very well, plug and play. The master/slave jumper is clearly labelled and performance is fine. So I have a newish SATA SSD in my old Power Macintosh G4 and it works like a charm.

Disappointed by maybe not surprised. I have yet to find any of these SATA to IDE adapters that consistently work. I ordered 3, one the IDE socket was so tight it broken the IDE cable when I tried to remove it. That first adapter never powered up or showed any indication of power. The second adapter showed powered, but the drive never spins up, tried multiple cables, drives, set as master or slave, nothing. The third adapter the BIOS actually reported as seen, but could not access the drive to install operating system or even copy data over to it. So looks like 1 DOA, 1 failed in minutes, and one had incomplete function. I will be returning these. Since these adapters are sold all over Amazon and eBay... they are likely sourced from the same OEM... sad, really, have some nice older equipment I wanted to keep running, but IDE drives have all but disappeared. Tried MicroSD and SD card to IDE, no consistent boot functionality, now tried these drive adapter boards, no joy at all.

The adapters do work and they are nice and cheap. As others have stated, the boards are a bit flimsy, but I have taken them on and off my drives several times and they are holding up fine. There is a Master / Slave jumper, but no Cable Select option on the jumper. The issue I have is that the jumpers do not seem to work. I am guessing this is just for my use case because the other reviews do not mention any problems with the master / slave jumpers. I am trying to use four of these in an old four bay USB storage device (Venus T4U) I have tried to configure these every way possible but only one drive on each of the IDE interface will work at a time. If I add a second drive as a slave it will not recognize the drive, and neither of the drives will show up. I've tried every master / slave combo, removing both jumpers, master / master, slave / slave, but it will just not for me. I've decided to keep them and just use two drives in this, with one drive on each IDE interface. Overall I would suggest the purchase if you need them and don't have a weird use case like min.

I bought this to replace the hard drive of my Korg D888 Multitrack which finally took a dump. I had some 128gig SSD drives and this adapter did the trick. The hard drive swap was fast and simple. I did watch a tutorial first. The SSD booted right up, format completed and my D888 is dead silent now and working better than it ever did. I bought 2 of these but will but more as my old hard drives fail and upgrade them to SSD drives. Highly recommend. Fast ship, great seller, no issues.

Since PATA drives are less in-demand, therefore increasingly harder to find, and increasingly more expensive than their SATA mechanical or SSD equivalents (basic supply & demand), this is a great, cost-effective way to leverage some old hardware platforms with less expensive drives. I have a 20-year-old Windows development server (2003) that still runs my home network (DHCP, DNS, DFS, etc.) and that uses ultra-100 PATA drives, one of which, 320GB, began to fail recently. I had a spare 500GB SATA drive on hand and saw this little adapter gem so I decided to give it a try. I was skeptical, but I figured $10 was a reasonable price to at least give it a try. Worked with no problems. My only critiques: 1. At $10 I guess I shouldn't complain, but it felt rather flimsy when connecting it to the drive and connecting the high-density PATA and power cable connections. Just be gentle with it. 2. It came with no documentation. However, and old hardware jockey like me had no problem understanding the jumper setup. It comes configured as master, but the drive I was replacing was a slave. The jumper setting was only labeled on the circuit board for the default master configuration, so I assumed (correctly) that the other pin was for slave mode. Will buy again as my 4 other PATA drives begin to fail.

古い PC の再生のために使用しました。 HDD は WD RED Plus 1TB です。 PC 側には PATA のインターフェイスしかなかったので、新しい HDD を使用するために使用しました。 ジャンパーピンでマスター・スレーブを切り替えることができます。 マスター、スレーブの両方のパターンで動作させる必要があったためそれぞれ使用してみましたが、特に問題なく使用できました。 以下使用時の注意点です。 ・基板むき出しなので、通電前に本商品が導通部分に触れていないかを確認しておく必要があります。 ・コネクターの構造上、SATA 側よりも PATA 側が固いです。接続時は PATA ケーブルに本商品を接続し、それから HDD の SATA コネクターに接続することになると思います。

Der Adapter wird dafür genutzt, eine Sata SSD auf einem alten Pentium 2 board mit IDE Anschluss zu benutzen. Wurde problemlos erkannt, und Windows 98 liess sich einwandfrei darauf installieren, ohne irgendwelche zusätzlichen Treiber. Gewinnt keine Geschwindigkeitspreise, aber das war auch nicht das Ziel. Achtung: Das Board arbeitet anscheinend mit einer internen OS als Interface, denn wenn man die Platte von diese Adapter abzieht und diese versucht an einem anderen PC mit SATA Anschluss auszulesen findet man nur diverse nicht auslesbare Partitionen. Als Backup Methode daher eher nicht geeignet.

A lot of people would be looking for this item so they can upgrade the original Xbox with a sata hhd. This does work, however you will need to solder 101 and 103 SMD resistors to R4 and RH1 respective in order to get the max speed. If you’re not confident on soldering then its best to purchase the more expensive Startech.

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Works as it should when mixing old hardware with fairly modern ones