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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Works, although certain precautions must be taken

    posted by NOD127 on 04/07/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Just as fast as the more expensive one's, but that's to be expected, since they're all using the same chips. So no worries there
    Cons:
    the solder points for the IDE header are capable of touching the metal body of your harddrive, so cover the "collision&quo...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 2
    • Ease Of Use: 3
    • Usefulness: 5
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    ide to sata

    posted by dadss on 01/09/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    Small, ultra compact, unobtrusive and easy to use. Has Jumper settings for master, Slave ans Cable Select so should work fine with most devices not just computers. You can upgraded my XBOX1 to 2TB with this and works flawlessly. (You have to use XBOX HDD Pa...
    Cons:
    Build Quality could be better but at the price, great. All 3 I ordered worked fine. Also you have to use electrical tape on the...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    good product, works well in most PC's

    posted by BrainFreeze311 on 12/08/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Very easy to use works on most PC's works on most SATA based devices for its price, its a good deal has 48bits LBA which means it can use drives larger than 137GB compadible with ULTRA ATA 133/100/66/33 works with windows, macs and linux it comes in a good,...
    Cons:
    easy to bend the ide pins quite fragile (although if you are careful with it, it shouldn't break)
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    IDE Adaptor

    posted by canadish on 11/12/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Has a jumper, and has the usual configuration for this kind of adapter.
    Cons:
    This adapter has no guide on IDE slot. This can lead to putting the cable on back to front. This means you will have to pay att...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Works as expected

    posted by Kobai on 09/21/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    It works like it should. Just plug it into your sata device and pata cable/molex connector and it gets recognized by the motherboard.
    Cons:
    The solder joints seem oxidized or corroded. (check the product picture) But this doesn't affect the working of the product. ...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 4
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    Works great on XBOX

    posted by jonnyenglish on 10/17/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Works great. Easy to install and is very campact and small.
    Cons:
    Bit flimsy. Build quality is 'acceptable' though. Some Games wont load from the HDD. Though relatively few. But this may be to...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Works well with Origional XBOX

    posted by jonnyenglish on 09/03/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    Small, ultra compact, unobtrusive and easy to use. Has Jumper settings for master, Slave ans Cable Select so should work fine with most devices not just computers. You can upgraded my XBOX1 to 2TB with this and works flawlessly. (You have to use XBOX HDD Pa...
    Cons:
    Build Quality could be better but at the price, great. All 3 I ordered worked fine. Also you have to use electrical tape on the...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Great product

    posted by dukeys on 04/11/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Works out of the box (on Ubuntu at least) Power LED Has a molex power connector that supplies power to the device and to the sata power connector Can be used on old motherboards to boot from a sata drive, Note: You may have to select SCSI device in the bios...
    Cons:
    cheap construction, dodgy soldering but seems to work fine. You can't plug it into a sata cable, it must be plugged into the dr...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    THE BEST ADAPTER FOR XBOX original

    posted by hobodan on 03/24/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    I got this in the mail in victoria BC canada took 3 weeks but once it arrived it worked like a charm! just be sure to use xbohdm hard drive manager and set both your cd drive and this adapter as Cable select pins 1-3on this card with the included jumper. af...
    Cons:
    only con is waiting time if you live in canada be patient looking at least 3 weeks to be honest but it will come and tracking i...
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    • Overall Rating: 2
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 1
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 1
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    Test your luck if you dare

    posted by iamturok on 02/27/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:less than 1 day

    Pros:
    Cheap. Easier to set up than similar products. Has power and disk activity LEDs.
    Cons:
    cheap build quality. Hit or miss, works or it doesn't.
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