Addonics ADSAIDE SATA to IDE-ATAPI Converter
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Customer Review: great product
Summary: 5 Stars
worked on the first try, when another adapter was being flaky. I like this one because it has jumper setting in case you need to specify master/slave, and also because it attaches to the SATA drive, not the IDE port on the motherboard. This means you don't have to replace the IDE cable with a SATA cable, and don't have to worry as much about space limitations (less fuss = more awesome). It is oriented properly so that you can still bottom-mount your SATA drive with this attached.
I used this along with a 3.5" Bay To Dual 2.5" Sata HDD to put a 2.5" SATA 320GB drive into my Time Warner Cable DVR box. It came with a 3.5" IDE drive which used side and bottom mounting. This modification removed all the hard drive noise and 75% of the heat coming from the cable box (night and day difference). There is another cheaper adapter plate option SILVERSTONE SDP08 3.5 to 2 X 2.5-Inch Bay Converter - it seems to have the 3.5" bottom-mount holes but not sure, also would expect it to dissipate heat better since it is metal, but not dampen vibrations as well.
Customer Review: Addonics SATA to IDE is the real deal!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was having issues with my BlueRay burner in which my computer was not liking the SATA
Drive for it. I kept getting an error finding the OS. I was nervous that the converter would be slow,
Especially just to watch BlueRay movies (that require avg 45megs per second).
I have a medium tower, so space was not the issue. It was easy to connect (make sure you utilize the
80pin ide cable, you know, the round one). Turned my PC on and she was good to go. Ran some quality
Test as well. BlueRay plays perfect, and I was getting UDMA 6 transfer rate. This product is the real
Deal, and does not sell you short. Windows started up fine, detected the blue ray player fine, and no performance
Issues at all. BlueRay plays perfect, and data transfer rate is excellent.
PC Specs:
Foxconn 754 motherboard
AMD 64 3700 CPU
2 gig DDR400 (pc-3200) single channel mode
4 SATA ( 2 used for HDD; 250gig and 150 gig 7200 rpm)
2 IDE ( 1 blueRay burner, 1 DVD burner)
SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS
HIS Radeon ICE Q 4750 (1g) AGP 8x
Windows XP SP3.
Customer Review: Finally a product that works
Summary: 5 Stars
I had tried various products to be able to hook up a SATA drive to an older PC. More specifically, I have an old IBM NetVista X41 (circa 2002) which has a 1.8Ghz processor, but back then, there was no such thing as dual core. I installed Windows 7 but it was extremely slow. Since it has a 17" screen, I wanted to be able to give it to my mom, but in its current state, it would drive my mom insane. I thought if I could hook up an SSD, it would help. I tried some cheaper adapters, but all failed. I decided based on Amazon's return policy, I'll give this one a shot... and thankfully, it works like a champ. As an example, turning on the machine, logging into Windows, having some Window weather gadgets on the screen which pull information from the Internet, bringing up a browser, and loading the default home page took 10 minutes! Now, with the SSD, it takes 4 minutes 46 seconds, a savings of over 50%! Some other PATA/SATA adapters require two power sources, one for the adapter and one for the drive, but this one only requires one. It even comes with a connector which then can be used to share power with another device.Customer Review: Only SATA converter I could get to work with older hardware
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, I tried the USB 2.0 to SATA converters, like Apricorn Drivewire Universal HDD Adapter USB To 2.5IN & 3.5IN Sata & Pata and another one which I don't recall. To be fair, I don't have an up-to-date Windows machine-- only a six year old Pentium III with a USB 2.0 PCI card, and a newer MacBook. Neither one worked with a drive.
I finally bought this gizmo, and hooked it up (internally) between the IDE cable and the SATA 250GB drive. The BIOS (from 2001!) saw it, and it worked like a charm.
I suspect the Apricorn Drivewire might work easily on a newer PC, but if you are trying to hook up large harddrives to older machines (to make inexpensive backup servers), you might want this in your toolbox. I'm ordering a second one right now.
Customer Review: Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
If I would have known that there existed such a small gadget to solve my problems, I would have gotten it a long time ago, unfortunately, I had to do so much readings and even joined a forum to solve my problem, they only gave me a rough idea of what I had to do, with a little nervousness and common sense, I chose the proper one. The features should be explained in detail so others can be decisive on what they want, I do not know much about hardware but I knew I needed a converter from my IDE to SATA for my new HD.