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

Bought one of these and it didn't work (drive was recognized but data transfers froze), but I got a replacement right away and the replacement is perfect.It works very well, plug and play. The master/slave jumper is clearly labelled and performance is fine. So I have a newish SATA SSD in my old Power Macintosh G4 and it works like a charm.

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.

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.

I ordered this because I was trying to upgrade an older pc of mine just for fun. When I got it, it looked simple enough to operate, and installation was very easy. However, after setting jumpers correctly and making sure everything was properly connected, my pc didn't recognize the sata drive I connected to it. The BIOS reported nothing connected other than the two dvd drives in my pc (Funnily enough, one of the dvd drives uses this exact same adapter with no problems. They can't all be winners...). To make matters worse, after only 10 minutes or so of operation (If you call just sitting there doing literally nothing operation) my computer locked up when trying to boot, and I heard faint crackling and began to smell something burning. Turns out, the chipset on the board got so hot that it literally melted the little quality control sticker that was on it. Yikes... If you really really need an ide to sata adapter, anything other than this one will suffice.

Since PATA drives are less in-demand, therefore increasingly harder to find, and increasingly more expensive than their SATA mechanical or SSD equivalents (basic supply & demand), this is a great, cost-effective way to leverage some old hardware platforms with less expensive drives. I have a 20-year-old Windows development server (2003) that still runs my home network (DHCP, DNS, DFS, etc.) and that uses ultra-100 PATA drives, one of which, 320GB, began to fail recently. I had a spare 500GB SATA drive on hand and saw this little adapter gem so I decided to give it a try. I was skeptical, but I figured $10 was a reasonable price to at least give it a try. Worked with no problems.My only critiques:1. At $10 I guess I shouldn't complain, but it felt rather flimsy when connecting it to the drive and connecting the high-density PATA and power cable connections. Just be gentle with it.2. It came with no documentation. However, and old hardware jockey like me had no problem understanding the jumper setup. It comes configured as master, but the drive I was replacing was a slave. The jumper setting was only labeled on the circuit board for the default master configuration, so I assumed (correctly) that the other pin was for slave mode.Will buy again as my 4 other PATA drives begin to fail.

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.