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.)
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SATA Disk to IDE/PATA 40Pin Motherboard Converter Adapter PCBA for Desktop & 2.5 3.5" Hard Disk Drive
3.5 inch SATA HDD Drive to IDE 40Pin mainboard converter Board
Works with all 2.5/3.5" SATA Drives.
Supports IDE 66/100/133MB/s
With Master and slave jumper.
No driver needed, plug and play, unit is not hot swappable.
Adapter is good for up grading an old computer with 3.5 inch IDE HDD to a new 3.5 inch SATA HDD or SSD.
Compatible with DOS, Windows 98/98SE, Me, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7 & Windows 8 & Windows 10& Linux.
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| Sold By | NFHK Adapter | CHEN YANG | CableCC | CableCC | Abteck | Xin sen long(Shenzhen)Electronics Co., Ltd |
| connector type | sata | Ide | SATA | Sata | USB 3.0、USB2.0、USB1.1 | SATA to IDE |
| number of ports | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 |
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Works but jumpers don't work for my use case
The adapters do work and they are nice and cheap.As others have stated, the boards are a bit flimsy, but I have taken them on and off my drives several times and they are holding up fine. There is a Master / Slave jumper, but no Cable Select option on the jumper.The issue I have is that the jumpers do not seem to work. I am guessing this is just for my use case because the other reviews do not mention any problems with the master / slave jumpers.I am trying to use four of these in an old four bay USB storage device (Venus T4U)I have tried to configure these every way possible but only one drive on each of the IDE interface will work at a time. If I add a second drive as a slave it will not recognize the drive, and neither of the drives will show up. I've tried every master / slave combo, removing both jumpers, master / master, slave / slave, but it will just not for me. I've decided to keep them and just use two drives in this, with one drive on each IDE interface.Overall I would suggest the purchase if you need them and don't have a weird use case like min.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2023
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
Works fine for adding a SATA drive to an original xbox using chimp. Protip though: you need to do everything in a really exact order. First, set the slave jumper. Make sure you have the SATA drive connected before you boot the console. It also needs molex power, duh. Boot chimp and wait for the "press A" screen where it asks you to detect the slave drive. Then, swap the IDE cable from the DVD drive to the adapter. Wait a good 15 seconds. Chimp should detect it. Press A / start to enter the menu. If you insert the drive into the adapter after connecting the IDE cable, you will reset the bus and Chimp will exit with "unable to read first sector". Also, make sure you set the jumper to master after you clone your drive.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024
The adapters do work and they are nice and cheap.
As others have stated, the boards are a bit flimsy, but I have taken them on and off my drives several times and they are holding up fine. There is a Master / Slave jumper, but no Cable Select option on the jumper.
The issue I have is that the jumpers do not seem to work. I am guessing this is just for my use case because the other reviews do not mention any problems with the master / slave jumpers.
I am trying to use four of these in an old four bay USB storage device (Venus T4U)
I have tried to configure these every way possible but only one drive on each of the IDE interface will work at a time. If I add a second drive as a slave it will not recognize the drive, and neither of the drives will show up. I've tried every master / slave combo, removing both jumpers, master / master, slave / slave, but it will just not for me. I've decided to keep them and just use two drives in this, with one drive on each IDE interface.
Overall I would suggest the purchase if you need them and don't have a weird use case like min.
As others have stated, the boards are a bit flimsy, but I have taken them on and off my drives several times and they are holding up fine. There is a Master / Slave jumper, but no Cable Select option on the jumper.
The issue I have is that the jumpers do not seem to work. I am guessing this is just for my use case because the other reviews do not mention any problems with the master / slave jumpers.
I am trying to use four of these in an old four bay USB storage device (Venus T4U)
I have tried to configure these every way possible but only one drive on each of the IDE interface will work at a time. If I add a second drive as a slave it will not recognize the drive, and neither of the drives will show up. I've tried every master / slave combo, removing both jumpers, master / master, slave / slave, but it will just not for me. I've decided to keep them and just use two drives in this, with one drive on each IDE interface.
Overall I would suggest the purchase if you need them and don't have a weird use case like min.
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