EP-014 SATA Disk to IDE/PATA 40Pin Motherboard Converter Adapter PCBA for Desktop & 2.5 3.5 inch Hard Disk Drive

Does a great job. Just what I needed to replace the IDE hard drive with SATA drive in my Humax PVR. Worked straight away. Excellent.

As described in the title - this works really well with the original Xbox. I wanted to drop in a SATA solid state drive to replace a 22 year old mechanical drive (that hadn't been powered on for at least a decade until recently!). Somehow the original drive still worked but I didn't want to risk it. This adaptor has worked perfectly (although I did need to pick up an 80 pin IDE cable from Amazon for a couple of quid). I've bought IDE to SATA adapters in the past - I went with this one specifically this time for its ability to be switched between primary and secondary IDE channels (that's a blast from the past!). It made it easier for cloning the original drive. Good value.

Most people would be interested in that to install a SATA drive into original Xbox. You would still need 80 wires IDE cable, though. It works just fine, and has a master/slave jumper on it for hotswap cloning.

Wanted this to use an old 20GB SSD from a dead laptop in an even older tower PC. It connected up ok and the BIOS actually detected the drive first time, brilliant or so I thought. That was until the whole system then hung, until I removed the drive and rebooted. Now the PC doesn't see it all, despite the drive working in another machine. Despite trying different drives and on a different PC, this adaptor appears to now be totally dead. So a total of 5 seconds of life, at least the motherboard was unaffected as the PC detects IDE drives fine.

Extremely disappointed that this Gender Bender does not fit in my laptop when attached to an SSD 2.5" SSD Hard drive I bought for job. A shame, as it looks a good bit of kit.

Worked great on an Xbox, just remember to use the jumper appropriately as you may think something has gone wrong but actually the jumper just needed changing.

Many of these modules don't - this one does! and it has master/slave jumper which is. important for some systems

Bought this to retrieve the contents of three IDE drives. A bit fiddly to get into place, but it picked up the first drive no problem. It took absolutely ages to transfer the contents though, speed was no higher than 4-5MB/s (I don't remember IDE being THAT slow!). Nonetheless, it did the job. Unfortunately, it did not detect the other two drives. They span up but nothing happened. Could easily be the drives themselves though. Overall, for the cost, I'm happy and would recommend with caution. It's just a bit slow.

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。

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.)

Saves space in older case

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.

Perfetto, utilizzato per accedere ad un hdd 2.5 dei primi anni 2000, tutto senza problemi. Consigliato