NFHK SATA Disk to IDE/PATA 40Pin Motherboard Converter Adapter PCBA for Desktop & 2.5 3.5" Hard Disk Drive

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I bought this to replace the Hard Disk in a softmodded Xbox with a Samsung DVD drive. If you've got one of these consoles you know the Startech IDE2SATA adapter doesn't work with the DVD drive on the same IDE channel.THIS adapter does work with the DVD drive on the same channel, however it has suboptimal boot up speed from the factory.By adding a 100 ohm (Ω) resistor to pad R4 and a 10k ohm (Ω) resistor to pad RH1, boot times are cut from TWO whole minutes to about 45 seconds.If you're comfortable with surface mount soldering this is a fantastic deal for an adapter being less than half the price of the Startech equivalent.

Burned an old image to a SATA drive, connected this adapter to the SATA drive and hooked it to an old critical system that uses an IDE drive and proprietary ISA controller card. Booted right up.

I purchased the SATA host to IDE drive adapter. I had to order it twice since Amazon didn't seal the blister pack the first time and the product was lost in transit. Overall, the product is pretty fragile as you would expect at this price point. The SATA plug was bent. The included molex to berg adapter was uncomfortably tight on the molex side. I was able to successfully image the contents of an 80 GB drive with this over 20 to 30 minutes.That said, I would not buy this to use it repeatedly, it seems pretty clear that it will break after a few uses. Really the only reason one would but it is to backup old data from a couple drives. Not to mention there is really no reason to buy this to permanently attach an IDE drive to a modern system since modern drives are cheap and dependable.

Mine burned up and nearly melted. Ironically the sticker that says "QC Passed" is a bit charred and curled from the heating up. It was very hot to the touch for the 10 seconds it was on. I am returning this since it failed on the first day but I do not recommend this product. Try something from a reputable vendor.

I have a legacy circa 2005 Pentium 4 based system that I want to keep running as is because it has specialized software running on it that cannot be re-installed on a fresh OS. It's running Windows XP SP2. The motherboard, in addition to the IDE HDD ports, has 2 SATA I ports. These are on the VIA chipset and they do not downgrade a SATA II device or higher down to SATA I. It's SATA one or the ports don't work. At first I set the jumpers on a SATA II HDD to force SATA I mode and that did work. But then I wondered if using this adapter and running the IDE cable to the new SSD that I cloned the original HDD to would be faster than the HDD SATA I drive. The answer is yes, this adapter with the SSD on the IDE channel is faster.One thing that is very interesting is that the original drive and the SSD have 3 NTFS partitions on them. The 2nd and 3rd partitions run significantly faster than the OS partion in CrystalDiskMark. I even re-arranged the partitions so that the C: partitiion/boot is 40GB and only 7% used and the CrystalDiskMark results aren't any better, so I guess that was not the reason. I don't know why the partitions produce different speed results.But the adapter works great. You have to be somewhat careful not to break it but now I have a new drive with my specialized apps on a 20 year old Windows XP system and it should run fine and at least 3x faster for a long time... (Don't worry, it's not connected to the internet.)

Used it for my xbox and works great.

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