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I give it a 4, because the price, although Great, is overshadowed by the lack of instructions, or specific video/online support for the card, and which connection to use/not use. Trying to utilize IDE CD/DVD to SATA mobo. So far, my chart has me attempting 7 different configurations, without success. I guess I'll just buy a SATA CD/DVD, and end my troubles. Good Learning (I guess) experience. I don't know if my device, or the card, is faulty. LED's on both light up. Combo Tray ejects. My suggestion.... (as others have said prior to my purchase).... Just foot the 15-20 US Dollars to buy a new drive (for those CD/DVD drives). Me? I now have an extra piece of equipment for storage (packed away).
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It seemed that when I powered on my computer, I heard a lot of loud rattling (this was adapted to an SSD for an old Dell OptiPlex GX110), and when it got past the startup, BIOS didn't want to recognize the 128GB SSD that I had this attached to, and I thought I had the whole thing secured to the motherboard. I mean, with the rattling, I thought something was going to go wrong, and sure enough. In all honesty, if you're planning on going flash memory with an old computer like this, I'd settle for the IDE to CompactFlash route, it just seems that my idea that a full-blown SSD would be better with a SATA adapter sounded good on paper, but now that I tried it, didn't work the way I thought it would.
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When I first hooked this up I just unplugged my SATA cable attached to my CD drive and already attached to my motherboard and plugged it into the device. Turned the computer on and BIOS could not detect the hard drive the I had the device plugged into. After several attempts without success I was about to give up. As a last resort I used the SATA cable that came with the device and hooked everything back up and the device worked perfectly. The cable clicked into the SATA port nice and secure so I assume that was the problem. So basically make sure you use the supplied SATA cable and everything should work great.
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After spend hours messing with this and looking online for information on how it works and how to set it up I found that there is little to tell you what you need to know. It should come with instructions on how to set it up and use it. SATA HOST = IDE HD IDE HOST = to SATA HD IDE = SATA This is the markings.. Now what to do... 1) Start at the motherboard and put the SATA red cable in (with the computer off) 2) Plug the little card into your IDE drive. 3) Plug the Red SATA cable in to the spot (SATA HOST = IDE HD) 4) plug in power to both the IDE Hard Drive and the little card.
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Purchased in 2017. The PATA IDE to Serial ATA SATA Interface card works as I expected. I have been using it to attach older CD-ROM, CDRW, Hard Drives, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy Drives, and Zip Drives to my Windows 10 computer. The only issue I have had is identifying the master/slave/connect pin configurations on some older devices that no longer have details of the configuration, which has nothing to do with this adapter card. Simply plug the card in to the IDE device, configure the pin out on the device to “MASTER”, attach the SATA cable from your PC to the adapter card, and power both the adapter card and device with a MOLEX 4-pin. It is often best to install the device BEFORE powering on the computer, to allow the BIOS and OS to identify the new connection. Older IDE devices were not designed to be hot swappable. Highly recommend, I’m ordering several more for a drive build I’m making (2019)Read full review
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