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Convert IDE/PATA and SATA hard drive interfaces for use with older/newer computer systems. Adapter has female SATA power and data connectors, and male IDE/Molex data and power connectors.
Note: adapters of this type CAN NOT be used with external hard drive enclosures, it WILL NOT FIT. Don't forget to adjust your BIOS settings to detect the adapted hard drive! You may need extra cables not included with this product.
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Technical Details
- Convert hard drive interfaces to work with newer/older systems- Supports ATA 100/133
- Converts Parallel ATA(PATA, ATA, IDE) to Serial ATA (SATA)
- Converts SATA to PATA/ATA/IDE/EIDE
- 1 x SATA port, 1 x PATA port (40-pin IDE), 1 4-pin power connector (Molex)
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By K. Fox (Colorado)
This adapter will likely work fine for PATA and SATA drives, but is not compatible with the older IDE (pre-PATA) discs.
The adapter's pins on the IDE/PATA side are male, requiring a female disc socket; IDE disc sockets are male. Male to male does not work.
The Molex (electrical) connector is inverted for IDE, probably ok for PATA.
The dimensions/location of the Molex connector and the IDE connector (ignoring for the moment the earlier Male/Male issue above, and the inverted Molex connector) are physically too close to both fit at the same time.
I have a dozen older IDE drives I intended to copy over to my new SATA drives, this adapter was 100% incompatible with Western, Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, and all others.
This adapter is for PATA / SATA drives only. This adapter is physically incompatible with IDE.
I can't fault the suppler, as the package clearly says "PATA to SATA, and SATA to PATA" adapter, and nowhere mentions IDE. Amazon however. is simply wrong to advertise this adapter with IDE in any part of the description.
By BfloWingZ (Buffalo, NY)
I purchased this as a solution to install a new SATA Lite-On iHOS104-06 Blu-ray drive into my now older IDE only (But still perfectly useful) Compaq Presario XP Home SP2 system. My system hardware configuration inside the tower would not permit room for any of the other converters on the market and the RAID card I first bought was more hassle than it was worth with no functional solution. (Admittedly, I was behind the curve on this technology when I bought it.)
Using this adapter, I had my new drive installed, up and running in practically no time. Operational to this day. The one fuss... I don't know whether it was this board or the drive itself which forced me to re-install the drive re-configured to use the master IDE connection on the IDE ribbon cable instead of the slave, and I wasn't interested in the effort to find out.
I can't speak to the actual functionality of the two-way conversion of this card, but the connectors of this device clearly do not permit connection of hardware in the reverse configuration. And, additional adapters seem to defeat the purpose.
Lastly, speaking to the workmanship, I wish these SATA connections had a locking aspect to them as it just slides into the SATA drive ports and with the little bit of tension in my IDE ribbon cable I expect that someday I may find it popped of the drive. Other than this, for the price I'm perfectly satisfied.
By J. Louie
I was going to upgrade my old motherboard so I could use the new larger SATA drives. I have an old 2002 computer with a 120GB 7200 rpm WD PATA drive that runs fine. I just brought this adapter and a Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EADS [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging](now obsolete after buying it 2 weeks ago) instead. The EADS drive turned out to be good for XP users because WD uses a new "Advance Format" for the new drives and XP users with 2 partitions need to run a WD Align program.
The only issue I had was the adapter's power socket is a little tight making it difficult to plug in the power connector while holding the fragile adapter PCB. Otherwise it works great.
Notes:
1) Western Digital offers free imaging software to clone the old drive onto a new WD drive. Their Acronis True Image WD Edition copied my C: and D: partitions in the same proportions onto my new drive. Seagate offers similar S/W for their drives.
2) When cloning, I had to put the new drive on the Secondary Master (middle connector on 40-pin IDE cable) because the adapter works only as a Master, as mentioned by a previous reviewer. The newly cloned drive then goes on the end connector of the 80-pin EIDE cable on the Primary Master.
3) While doing this upgrade, the IDE controller went into PIO mode instead of Ultra DMA Mode which made the system run really slow. I found out my old device on the Primary Slave connector was causing CRC errors which forced the Master into PIO mode. I remove the Slave device and rebooted allowing XP to reset the DMA mode. The new 1TB drive is now running in Ultra Mode 6.
By Jose Carlos P. Reyes (Manila, Philippines)
With IDE hard drives getting more difficult to find I thought of trying a Seagate 320 GB SATA drive but without a controller card. There's no cheaper way (Mac compatible PCI controller cards cost as much, if not more than SATA drives) to use newer higher capacity drives. At first I was hesitant because of my experience with Mac Quicksilver's motherboard recognizing HDs to 128 GB. With the Mirror Drive the 320 SATA drive was recognized to full capacity instantly. I use the new drive as backup together with an older 160 GB IDE drive as the main drive. The adapter lengthens the dimensions of the SATA drive so I placed it into one of spare drive bays beneath the DVD burner, using the other controller. Other Mac upgraders told me OS X 10.4/5 will not recognize onboard Western Digital HDs so I have no experience with them except as external USB drives.
By Rev. Pee Kitty (North Atlanta Metro, GA, US)
This product worked easily and with no bugs or real problems. I used it to install a new SATA drive (as the master -- haven't tested this on a secondary drive) in an old computer. After hooking it up and powering on, the BIOS recognized the new drive right away.
My only complaint is that this is a bulky adapter that's designed to mount directly to the drive. My case has a weird arrangement for the hard drive enclosure, and this adapter made it impossible to put my drive back where it should go! I ended up jury-rigging the drive enclosure to move it to a new mounting point. (And as the product info says, don't even *think* about trying to fit this into an external drive case!)
Great product, but be aware that it plugs directly into the SATA ports on your hard drive and is a bit bulky -- if you've got a compact case where everything is crammed together, that could be an issue.
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