Addonics ADSAIDE SATA to IDE-ATAPI Converter
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Manufacturer: AddonicsBrand: Addonics
Edition: Personal Computers
Audio: English (Original Language)
Model: ADSAIDE
Publisher: Addonics
Studio: Addonics
Music Label: Addonics
Product features:
- CONTROLLER ADAPTER
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Customer Review: Life saver, but don't buy the recommended cable
Summary: 5 Stars
For my birthday, my wife bought me a Mediagate MG-35 Multimedia player and also a 500GB Western Digital hard drive to go with it. (The Mediagate is essentially a hard drive enclosure, that hooks into your Media Center and can play Video or music files from the drive)
When I went to install the hard drive in the Mediagate, I discovered that the drive had a SATA interface, but the Mediagate would only accept an IDE drive. My wife was understandably upset that the gift she bought me wouldn't work, but I figured there must be some kind of converter on the market and searched online and found some from a few different manufacturers.
In general, reviews of these converters showed that people were having problems, but eventually I found a link with results from tests done on the Addonics Converter by a Mac user group: http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/addonics/sata-ide/. That was enough to convince me, and so I purchased the "Addonics ADSAIDE SATA to IDE-ATAPI Converter" here on Amazon.com.
Once the converter arrived, I got the hard drive working with the Mediagate right away - everything plugs together easily. Just be sure to follow the clear directions showing how to align 'pin 1' with the stripe on the ribbon cable of your IDE connector. The small amount of extra length added to the drive by the Addonics converter meant that at first, the drive wouldn't fit in the Mediagate with the case closed. But a minor modification to the Mediagate mounting plate did the trick.
Over the last couple of months, the Addonics Converter has worked flawlessly, conneting the IDE Mediagate MG-35 to the SATA hard drive through many gigabites of file transfers and hours of movie watching and music listening. I have not had any problems and my wife is happy :-) I wholeheartedly recommend this Addonics device to anyone in a similar situation.
My only complaint - which is not against the Addonics Converter - is that Amazon recommend purchasing the "Tripp Lite P944-06I Serial ATA (SATA) Power Cable (6 Inch)" with the converter. Another review said the extra cable isn't needed, but I bought it anyway, just in case. That was a mistake. I'm not sure who would use the extra cable but I certainly didn't. The Addonics Converter comes with everything needed to transform a SATA drive into an IDE drive.
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