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Serial ATA SATA to Parallel ATA PATA/IDE Hard Drive HDD CD DVD-ROM Interface Convert Adapter

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Brand	Importer520
Hardware Interface	EIDE, IDE
Read Speed	6 Gigabytes Per Second

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Connects a SATA hard drive to a computer with a PATA/ATA/IDE/EIDE interface.
Supports ATA 100/133
1 x SATA port (power and data), 1 x PATA port (40-pin IDE), 1 4-pin power connector (Molex)
Adapter Only

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Convert IDE/PATA and SATA hard drive interfaces for use with older/newer computer systems. Adapter has female SATA power and data connectors, and male IDE/Molex data and power connectors. Note: adapters of this type CAN NOT be used with external hard drive enclosures, it WILL NOT FIT. Don't forget to adjust your BIOS settings to detect the adapted hard drive! You may need extra cables not included with this product.

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Product Dimensions

3 x 1.6 x 2 inches

Item Weight

1.58 ounces

Manufacturer

Importer520

ASIN

B003AG79GO

Item model number

6464970

Customer Reviews

320 ratings

4.1 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#1,274 in Internal Hard Drives

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

February 28, 2010

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Corey

Works on OG Xbox!

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2017

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With a WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch Desktop Hard Drive (WD10EZEX) drive you can upgrade the original Xbox! You also need an 80 pin dual IDE cable for it to work. The IDE cable in the Xbox doesn't work with this adapter.

11 people found this helpful

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GIZMO MAVEN

Works great for a 2006 Mac Pro, Blu-Ray works!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2018

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I was a bit skeptical of the quality and the reviews on this product but I decided to try these adapters anyways. I bought 2 and used them in my Mac Pro with 2 LG branded drives, one Blu-Ray, one DVD. They both work very well with VLC on both Mac OS 10.11 El Cap and Windows 10 Pro. I don't think I had to set the jumper pins any differently, either, but I cannot recall my experience exactly. My only issue with them is that the SATA connection was not as snug as I would like it to have been. The end that plugs into the DVD drive can slip out with relative ease and this is a pain when trying to slide the tray with the two DVD drives back into the Mac. Cable routing can be a little difficult as well. But once they are installed they seem to stay in place just fine.

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Kris R.

Good design. Bad construction. Not recommended for a novice.

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018

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I would only recommend this to someone with basic electronics and soldering skills. When mine arrived it still had a lot of flux and stray solder on the board. I had to clean that up and resolder a few of the joins that were’t done very well. There was also a small burn mark on one of the electrolytic capacitors, presumably from a soldering iron. I probably would have just replace them both (they look very cheap), but didn’t have any small 470µF on-hand.

I also added some electrical tape and some plastic bumpers to keep any of the exposed pins from shorting on the metal drive casing.

That said, once I fixed it up, it worked perfectly. I’m using it with a newer SATA drive in a Power Mac G4 MDD and Mac OS X 10.4 had no issues recognizing the drive. I haven’t benchmarked it yet, but the OS installation completed at least as quickly as it did on the previous IDE drive.

For the price, this isn’t a bad deal as long as you’re willing to put in 15 - 20 minutes of additional effort.

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ErikDaViking

It works, but you have to disconnect your hard drive, then after bios recognition, reconnect your hard drive. - Fool around time

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015

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Using this to install a new ASUS SATA DVD Drive, I ran into a problem. The Dell Dimension 3000 Bios did not see the drive at all after I installed this
board to convert an ide 40 pin to a sata configuration. I swapped cables, swapped the cables on the motherboard. No good - wouldn't work.

Then, by chance, I forgot to hook up power to the ide hard drive master, but had left the new dvd connected. Guess what? The bios recognized the Asus DVD drive.

I went into the bios and saw that the drive was recognized in the right place and thought - why not. Let's see what happens after I hook up the hard drive again. And that's what I did. The drive was recognized as drive 0 and the DVD was also recognized. I found I could duplicate the problem if I disconnected the DVD drive, booted the hard drive only and then tried to plug in the DVD after plugging in the boot drive. SOO, to get it working, disconnect all hard drives, leave the dvd drive connected, boot, and then go into the bios (F2) for set up on the Dell Dimension 3000. THe bios should nowrecognize the dvd drive. Power down, connect the hard drive, go back into setup and you should find that both the hard drive and the dvd drive are recognized.

There are no instructions with this converter. You need to be careful plugging it into the back of the sata drive = the board flexes and I think it could be easily damaged - caution here -. Make sure you have clearance on the back of the drive to install the converter board. Contrary to comments I have seen, the asus dvd benchmarks at 16X for DVD and plays just as well as it did under Win7 when I removed it in favor of putting a BD drive into my desktop.

In summary, buy this board, but be prepared to disconnect your hard drive and boot with only the DVD connected. Then the bios seems forced to recognize the drive. My setup uses two separate ribbon cables, one for the DVD drive plugging into the motherboard, and one going to the single hard drive plugging into a separate motherboard connecter. Your mileage may vary, there are a great many of these little connector boards available, but at least I know how to get this one working.

4 people found this helpful

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Gary M. Atchley

There are cheaper ones and some that may take a month to get to you.

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2014

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I received a board that looks a little different than the image posted. There was a QC sticker over the chipset as well. Removing the sticker revealed a JMicron chip. With that said I had no problem using this in an older standby Linux PC to copy and expand a failing Tivo drive. The old PC and Tivo both seen the new 1TB SATA drive just as if it was a PATA with no need to do any VooDoo black magic.

If you have an older piece of equipment that is in good working order other than needing a new PATA drive then this may help solve the issue. I would have had to spend a LOT more for a new PATA drive that was manufactured and knocked about in a warehouse for the last two or three years ago.

One last comment. Have a piece of double sided foam tape or hook and loop tape. I wouldn't worry too much about the adapter coming lose However there is a real possibility of the card coming into contact with the drives casing causing a short.

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Matt P

Solder bridges

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2018

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Doa. Does not recognize hard drive full capacity. Tried several hard drives. Then I looked at the PCB after reading other reviews.
What miserable excuse for a solder job. Looks like a 10 year old did this (probably not far from the truth). I counted at least 3 bridges on the main chip and several other pins maybe not connected.
I tried to fix with my iron but there was too much dried flux. And I cannot return. Warning to other buyers