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

I bought this to replace the hard drive of my Korg D888 Multitrack which finally took a dump. I had some 128gig SSD drives and this adapter did the trick. The hard drive swap was fast and simple. I did watch a tutorial first. The SSD booted right up, format completed and my D888 is dead silent now and working better than it ever did. I bought 2 of these but will but more as my old hard drives fail and upgrade them to SSD drives. Highly recommend. Fast ship, great seller, no issues.

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.)

Works great

Disappointed by maybe not surprised. I have yet to find any of these SATA to IDE adapters that consistently work. I ordered 3, one the IDE socket was so tight it broken the IDE cable when I tried to remove it. That first adapter never powered up or showed any indication of power. The second adapter showed powered, but the drive never spins up, tried multiple cables, drives, set as master or slave, nothing. The third adapter the BIOS actually reported as seen, but could not access the drive to install operating system or even copy data over to it. So looks like 1 DOA, 1 failed in minutes, and one had incomplete function. I will be returning these. Since these adapters are sold all over Amazon and eBay... they are likely sourced from the same OEM... sad, really, have some nice older equipment I wanted to keep running, but IDE drives have all but disappeared. Tried MicroSD and SD card to IDE, no consistent boot functionality, now tried these drive adapter boards, no joy at all.

I use this to put an SSD in my 1998 Emachine.

Wanted to use one of my old IDE optical drives in my current (old too) computer. Wouldn't work with the first one (Lite-On LH-201A1H) I tried, so my hopes weren't high. Found it would work with multiple TSST brand drives, as well as a Lite-On SHW-1635S.

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.

Edit: I had to amend my previous review. It turns out that these devices will not work in tandem. After buying a second one I discovered that it will only operate as a lone device or a slave device on the IDE line. If set as master the slave device is never detected. I'm using the two I bought as slaves on the end of both IDE lines and they seem to work well. Not a deal breaker, that not as nice as I would have liked. Already using two of these in a 20-year-old DOS / Windows 98 rig I'm running. I like how it has a jumper to select slave and master, that's something most other brands lack. It's fully invisible to the system and the motherboard treats the SATA drive as if it where an IDE. Fits fairly flush against the back of the drive and provides the exact same cabling and settings available on your typical IDE drive, as simple to install as plugging it in. No worries about finding drivers for an SATA expansion card for that classic IDE motherboard either, works automatically for every OS. Tons of room for games, media and stuff can be had for any old DOS, Windows 98, or Windows XP gaming rig and a great way to upgrade a dead optical drive or use old hard drives you might still have lying around. This one is going to upgrade the CDROM drive to an SATA DVD burner in my rig.