This product is very cheap, but it is ok. In addition, it is really too short expensive, so it was worth the money. product quality is rather average ... welds do not seem to be of good quality ... but it still works! cables are supplied (power and SATA) with the adapter, and the price is really... This product is very cheap, but it is ok. In addition, it is really too short expensive, so it was worth the money. product quality is rather average ... welds do not seem to be of good quality ... but it still works! cables are supplied (power and SATA) with the adapter, and the price is really good. I was looking for a way to connect an old IDE hard drive to a new PC ... and this adapter does the job! It is very cheap, but for use, it is not serious. good gadget for anyone who has an old IDE hard drive to connect to a new SATA connector. Read more

the thort of beeing able to convert an old IDE to a sata is great so I like the way it looks and things like that one big con is the fact that when I wanted to use them one of them shorted out it's power cable witch made a deasent amout of plastic smelly smoke and was't able to see where the was... the thort of beeing able to convert an old IDE to a sata is great so I like the way it looks and things like that one big con is the fact that when I wanted to use them one of them shorted out it's power cable witch made a deasent amout of plastic smelly smoke and was't able to see where the problem was but the computer was / is running fine after it so it luckylly did't take anything else with it but it made me restructure the whole layout and I was going back to the old IDE cable and made the layout from that so insted of a computer with two opticals ( do to a missing blank front plate this is something I need to ) from that and two hdds and a cople of molex cable fans to a layout where there is one hdd two optical and a few molex fans it might be an idear to put the print plates into somesort of antistatic plastic ( the same that some companies put the end of a cable into to keep it from shorted out and maybe put the whole print into something like that or at least a plastic case so that it can't come in contact with any metal on the drive over all a great product so yeah it's not a bad idear and to be honest I love the fact that the old technoligy and new one can be combined without throughing out the old one and have to buy new if the computer system is't going to be used for something other then small amout of date processing like error code reading on a car or something like that to that job there is no need for a state of the art pc with the meanest kind of gpu card :-) Read more

Cheap - Possible to use old HDDs again - Has an activity LED the through-hole connector pins can touch the case of the attached drive. this shouldn't really be a problem, as drive cases are often painted and this solder appears coated... but i still put a piece of electrical tape over the back Be... Cheap - Possible to use old HDDs again - Has an activity LED the through-hole connector pins can touch the case of the attached drive. this shouldn't really be a problem, as drive cases are often painted and this solder appears coated... but i still put a piece of electrical tape over the back before mounting. Be careful of shorting out the 4 power pins. They can touch the metal case of hard drive. I put a little peace of tape on the metal case where the pins could come in contact and accidentally short them out. No big deal really and may not be a problem with all drives. f you have an older ide cdrom/dvd/hdd kicking around, this might just be the thing to get some more life out of it Read more

- Cheap - Possible to use old HDDs again - Has an activity LED - Doesn't work well with CD/DVD Drive - Build quality is not perfect For my old IDE HDD, this converter works perfectly. Make sure however to set the HDD jumper setting to 'Master', otherwise it won't work (at least that was the case... - Cheap - Possible to use old HDDs again - Has an activity LED - Doesn't work well with CD/DVD Drive - Build quality is not perfect For my old IDE HDD, this converter works perfectly. Make sure however to set the HDD jumper setting to 'Master', otherwise it won't work (at least that was the case for me). Also make sure you don't plug this converter up-side-down (it's possible to plug it this way, but the computer won't recognize the HDD). Unfortunately this converter doesn't work well for my LG CD/DVD Drive; sometimes Windows recognizes the drive, but if I restart the PC sometimes it doesn't recognize the drive anymore. Cheap product that works perfectly for old HDDs. Not recommended in combination with CD/DVD Drives. Read more

Works well, I got my old IDE disk to work with it rather fast. It also comes with a SATA cable. Just connect the module to the disk and use the cables to connect it to power and the main board. The fit was rather tight, I had to press down hard. Also I can see how it might touch the metal on the... Works well, I got my old IDE disk to work with it rather fast. It also comes with a SATA cable. Just connect the module to the disk and use the cables to connect it to power and the main board. The fit was rather tight, I had to press down hard. Also I can see how it might touch the metal on the disk. The build quality is not 100%, you might want to take care you don't break off anything. Nothing much, it's just overall a good item. It does what it needs to do, I got my PC working with it in no time. I'd recommend buying it, it's very good for its price :) Read more

Fairly sturdy, easy to use, and brainless. Just plug it into the drive, pop in SATA (included) and the floppy power cable and voila - shows up to the computer as a SATA drive! Unplugging it feels like it might break, if your drive has a metal casing, you may want to cover the exposed contacts on... Fairly sturdy, easy to use, and brainless. Just plug it into the drive, pop in SATA (included) and the floppy power cable and voila - shows up to the computer as a SATA drive! Unplugging it feels like it might break, if your drive has a metal casing, you may want to cover the exposed contacts on the board with some electrical tape, and it doesn't work on CD/DVD drives - only hard drives! Ordering another to test on another hard drive - if they work, hello RAID! Good price, product seems to work (though I haven't yet put it through its paces). I'd recommend it! Read more

Works great, the VERY BEST price around, Comes with cables. Both SATA and power cable.. Back solder points are close to drive, but , not touching (at least in my case) But I could see where the could be a concern to some.. Just remember to check the clearance between the solder points and drive a... Works great, the VERY BEST price around, Comes with cables. Both SATA and power cable.. Back solder points are close to drive, but , not touching (at least in my case) But I could see where the could be a concern to some.. Just remember to check the clearance between the solder points and drive case... If to close, a strip of electrical or splicing tape to stick to back... Well, well worth the money. I have yet to see it even remotly close to this price. Normal asking price for something close is around $19.15 Read more

-It's small -Comes with SATA cable and a power cable converter Molex-Mini molex -Doesn't require any installation what so ever -Works with Windows 7 -Has an orange LED for connection confirmation, might be an issue for one who's into case modification -Package was alright, but the mini molex on I... -It's small -Comes with SATA cable and a power cable converter Molex-Mini molex -Doesn't require any installation what so ever -Works with Windows 7 -Has an orange LED for connection confirmation, might be an issue for one who's into case modification -Package was alright, but the mini molex connector on the chip was bent so had to be pushed back. Works fine though. Found out my 'old' hard drive was quite noisy. I disconnected it again because I was getting really annoyed by the humming. GREAT gadget for anyone who has an old hard drive and no empty IDE connector and loads of SATA connectors. Read more

- zero config other than cable fiddling - uses a floppy power connector, so you can finally use one of those power supply outputs meant for the floppy no one uses anymore. - comes with cables! - the through-hole connector pins can touch the case of the attached drive. this shouldn't really be a i... - zero config other than cable fiddling - uses a floppy power connector, so you can finally use one of those power supply outputs meant for the floppy no one uses anymore. - comes with cables! - the through-hole connector pins can touch the case of the attached drive. this shouldn't really be a problem, as drive cases are often painted and this solder appears coated... but i still put a piece of electrical tape over the back before mounting. a great answer for modern motherboards that have only one IDE channel. my Asus mobo has one IDE channel and like 6 SATA channels, and i have one IDE HD, one SATA HD, and TWO IDE optical drives. that means one optical drive was out in the cold before i got this - but now, i can use an old DVD drive as a dedicated game disc drive! Read more

It works and it's cheap. It is compact enough to be plugged into any device without interfering. No speed degradation noticed with my CD-RW drive (didn't use it for a real hard-disk though). It requires a 4 pin power cable, which is included with the package, although you can use the floppy drive... It works and it's cheap. It is compact enough to be plugged into any device without interfering. No speed degradation noticed with my CD-RW drive (didn't use it for a real hard-disk though). It requires a 4 pin power cable, which is included with the package, although you can use the floppy drive cable from your PSU. A SATA cable is also included. At first the BIOS wouldn't recognize the drive, but after trying all jumper configurations it finally worked with "cable-select". Build quality is good enough for one-time installation, but I wouldn't recommend on moving it from device to device on a regular basis. The caption on the package can be misleading. This is an IDE to SATA converter, not the other way around. I understand what some people said about the power pins touching the metal case of the device, but in my case they touch plastic, so I don't worry about it. In any case they can be quite easily covered with some insulation tape. I'm buying another one for my DVD drive. Read more