Addonics ADIDESA 150 Mbps IDE to Serial ATA Converter

List Price: $36.99 Discount Price: $18.00

Features:

• IDE to Serial ATA adapter for using old IDE devices with new Serial ATA interfaces
• Mounts directly onto back of old IDE device
• Hot swap capability
• Mounts onto Addonics combo hard drive desktop drive cradle and other Addonics internal devices
• Bootable

Customer Reviews:

excellent!! [Posted on 2008-03-30]
works fine with old IDE hard drives.
works excellent in Raid 0 , boots up with no problem !
very recommended!

Check PC power connections before ordering [Posted on 2008-04-18]
My new Dell 530 had only SATA power plugs to support the 4 possible SATA drives. There are NO MOLEX connectors. There is one mini 4-pin bridge off one of the SATA power plugs that will support the Addonics converter, however the so called T cable Addonics provides has one Molex female, One molex male, and one mini SATA 4-pin female, so no way to connect to the 530 power supply. You will need to order a "SATA 15-pin Power to 4-pin Molex Adaptor. Addonics has this and should be ordered WITH the SATA/EIDE board, or else you will do as I did, lose a week with a 15 mile trip to get converter cables that would not work, and finally an additional $12.50 in postage for a $4 part.

The drive seems to work as expected for a Sony product - Just great!

It works! [Posted on 2008-04-24]
It works as advertised. Mine came with instructions as apposed to some of the other reviews. The down side of this adapter is the fact that it takes a god awful long time for the BIOS to detect the drive.

Must to have, to utilize your old IDE drive in computer with SATA connections [Posted on 2008-05-11]
The converter works well.

If you have new computer that has only SATA power connections, you should buy from Addonics, in the same order, "15-pin SATA to 4-pin Molex power connector".

Note that jumper setting on your IDE drive should depend on its function, i.e., master, slave or single. "Cable Select" setting works, as well, if your IDE drive has that option.

Good luck!

Did not need extra cables, worked like a charm [Posted on 2008-07-17]
I used the product on two Maxtor IDE drives and installed them in a Compaq Presario SR450F running Vista Home Premium with SATA interfaces. I ordered the extra cables indicated by other reviewers, but did not need them. Everything I needed was in the box including instructions. The one thing not covered in the instructions was the presence of a sticky foam pad on the unit, that I assume is designed to keep the IDE interface from becoming loose. The sticky part didn't really seem to make enough contact with the drive to help. I used it on one drive but not the other.

I installed the units and fired up the machine. Both drives showed up without a problem. Vista did have to change some permissions on the drive that had XP on it, but it did it automatically for me although it took a couple of minutes. I'm completely satisfied, except that I have to pay shipping to send back the unused cables so I won't really get my money back.

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