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Extra Value SATA To IDE Dongle
- £5.09ex vat
- £5.99inc vat
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- manufacturer #: M268
- quickfind code: 124850
- 63 in stock for next day delivery.
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Converts IDE drives to SATA motherboard
Hi, I have just bought one of these and to clear up all the confusion, I can confirm that it will apapt an ide device to work with an SATA port on a motherboard.
I had to write this comment, as I too were totally confused by conflicting comments with the other, similar products!!!!!!!
It says it will work with any ide device, although have only tried with an ata133 hard drive connected on a SATA300 port on motherboard. Delivers full ata133 speed with no drivers. Bios detects it as an sata drive.
One thing i Will mention, is the connector on the adaptor plugs straight into the back of the drive, with the apaptor at a right angle to the drive, so there is no fiddling sticking board down with tape,etc.
It is small, not much thicker than the drive itself, hope this helps!
I need to order another one, and now out of stock DOH!!! don`t you just hate that with ebuyer???
Does what it says on the package
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Windows 2000I bought three of these to use my old drives on a new motherboard and they work as described with no problems so far. (128GB, 250GB and 320GB drives.) Three points however:
Point 1: (Quoted from the instruction manual with original spelling and grammar),
"Make sure to format your hard drive before connecting to the adaptor. Under certain circumstances, your operating system may not be able to detect unformatted hard drive through this adaptor."
Point 2: Both your hard drive and the dongle need power. Power to the dongle is via a floppy style connector.
Point 3: The dongles connect directly to the backs of the hard drives. However, they are slightly thicker, extending slightly above and below the drives. They cannot be used on two hard drives mounted adjacent to each other - there must be a gap between or the dongles won't fit.
CLEARING UP SOME INFO
Firstly, yes, it will let you use any IDE device on a SATA port. This can never be foolproof as there will always be some devices that jsut wont go, but in general terms, 99% of DVD, CD Drives, as well as other MO DRibves and Hard Drives will or should work.
Secondly, it does NOT work at full ATA133 speeds. This device is SATA 1.0 Spec, and that at best is slower, much slower than ATA133
If you want to, try a program like HDTACH as that will tell you EXACTLY how fast your Hard Drives are, and when using one of these thigns, you will find that you are running a MAX of 16MB/s.
Considering a slow IDE Drive these days is 50MB/s that means that your HD when using one of these, is actually going at 3c times slower than normal.
Most drives these days are 90MB/s so that kind of show just how slow these thigns are.
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Now, thats not to say that they are crap, because they are not. for the price, they are really unbeatable and I for one bought 2 a few months back, and even in knowing how slow they are, I still bought 3 more just before xmas.
For the price, they are fantastic, but for gods sake, dont expect them to perform like a more expensive adapter does.
And of course, it has already been cleared up, but, since this device kind of turns an IDE Drive into a SATA one, you can only use one Drive per SATA Cable.
Im still giving it 5 stars, because in spite of me moaning about it and its spee,d or lack of, its still a very great bit of kit.
Great value
This is a very neat unit - not surpised that it is out of stock as the price is incredible. Bought one and now need 2 others but out of stock. However I am not surpised they are out of stock. I checked for something similar at PC World and as usual they don't have it (Why am I daft enough to waste time thinking PC World might stock ANYTHING I need?) Checked at Maplins they had something similar but at 4 times the price. Hopefully eBuyer will have some more soon - Its worth waitng for
A great little thing
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Windows XPMy mobo has only 1 IDE slot but I have 3 IDE devices so this works great allowing me to connect all three. I used it for my LG DVD drive no real problems .. at first it wasn't detected but I hadn't set the drive to master, so that solved it..
5 Stars
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Windows XPYou can connect only one IDE Device per SATA - IDE Dongle and make sure you have a free floppy drive sized power connector on your PSU to power this.
The device is compact and simply connects to the back of your IDE HDD/DVD-Rom.
You will also need a SATA cable not supplied with this.
one per drive?
Are one of these adapters required per drive or can a chain of IDE drives be run off one?
Ubuntu 7.10
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LinuxThis unit does not work under Ubuntu 7.10 Linux. The machine will not boot, however it works perfectly under Windows Vista.
I have tried both a dvd-rw and a hard drive with the same result.
This is a great product as long as you plan to use it with Windows
Which direction?
Can anyone confirm that this adapter is for connecting an old-school ATA hard drive to a SATA motherboard?
Is this basically the replacement product for quickfind 106549, which has been out of stock for weeks?
P.S. Sorry to everyone who, like me, hates these comments that are just questions rather than reviews!
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