StarTech 40-Pin IDE to 2.5in SATA HDD/SSD/ODD Converter, TAA (IDE2SAT2)

This and an SSD replaced the old electro-mechanical hard drive in an iMac G3 DV. Everything worked great right out of the box. I did have trouble loading MacOS X 10.4 on the SSD so I gave up on that after many tries. But it definitely works fine on the iMac with macOS 8.6 or macOS 9.2.

Fast and easy to install. Works great for Sun Netra X1. Use power cable from adapter into the motherboard, as extensions/separators might not work.

This product works great. I have three of them in one of my machine. To be clear, it converts a sata drive to IDE so it can be plugged into an old machine that is IDE only. It does not convert an IDE drive to sata. I have tried it on multiple HDDs and two optical drives. I have had no issues just leaving everything as cable select. If you want a device to convert an IDE drive to sata, try this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081YP2S5R. Unfortunately, StarTech doesn't seem to make one of these, so I have to plug one of their competitors instead.

Worked as expected to cover the drive in an original Xbox. Should listened to all the recommendations that day skip the green generic ones. Tried It first and it immediately gave issues and kept locking up the drive after about 10 mins of use. No issue with the startech so far and it allows me to use a 2.5 to 3.5 tray without having to modify the Xbox 3.5 caddy which the generic green one would have required

Was having tons of trouble getting the Windows XP installation to detect my SATA hard drive. Popped this adapter on and everything started working immediately without any issues whatsoever. Great product from a reputable brand, highly recommend.

I wanted to replace an old IDE/PATA DVD/CD Combo drive with a new optical drive capable of reading and writing double layer DVDs. I bought an LG Super Multi optical drive. The adapter is super easy to install. Just look at the photos. It's really a pretty cool little device. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work with the LG SATA optical drive. Prior to installing the LG, I went into the Device Manager and uninstalled the old IDE/PATA DVD/CD Combo device. I also uninstalled all of the ATA Channels and the ATA/SATA Controllers. I powered down and swapped out the IDE/PATA drive with the SATA one, connecting it using the adapter. Powered back up and the drivers reinstalled automatically. The new SATA drive seemed to work just fine at first. It was able to read discs without any problems. Unfortunately, I was never able to successfully burn a disc. One of two things would happen. My computer would either freeze and lock up during the burn, or the burn would finish, but it would say that it was unsuccessful. Freezing during the burn was the worst case. I would have to forcefully turn off the power and restart my computer. This happened, or the burn would not succeed, with complete regularity. So, although the optical drive read discs just fine, it would simply not write to discs at all. I really wanted that to work, but it was to no avail. I ended up installing an LG IDE/PATA Super Multi optical drive that supported double layer discs. The write attempts that failed using the SATA drive succeeded with no problems using the IDE drive. There must be something about connecting a SATA drive using the adapter that interfered with the drive's ability to burn discs. I still thing the adapter is a very cool and useful device. And I'm sure that there are other use cases beyond connecting a SATA optical drive where the device works perfectly fine. Perhaps the adapter works connecting a hard drive or SSD. So I'm still giving it four stars. It would be five if only the device worked for me connecting a SATA drive.

Bought another brand before this one for my OG Xbox. Boot up took about 28 seconds. Replaced it with this one and the boot time was less than 8 seconds. Definitely worth the extra money. Better quality as well.

Works perfectly. I used it to plug in an ssd into my G3 minitower. Had some back and forth but it was because of the system, not the adapter. If you are trying to get OS 9 on your mac, I had the most luck using QEMU to install the os onto the drive before booting. Either way, it's a wonder stuff like this exists and it's a great price.

旧式3.5インチを２．５インチHDDを変更に使用した 動作良好でした

Najważniejsze, że ze starym kontrolerem IDE nowy napęd DVD działa, co prawda jeden - tak jakby przejściówka zapisywała sobie go (ten pierwszy napęd podpięty do niej) w pamięci i już żadnego innego nie chciała rozpoznać (jakaś metoda na jej reset?).

I used this with a SATA HDD to upgrade an IDE based audio recorder (Yamaha AW1600). It worked well with the two drives I tested. These were a Vertex 2 SATA II 60GB and a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB. Having tried two other SATA to IDE interfaces, this was the only one I found that worked properly in my particular scenario. The other interfaces I tried either did not work fully or were very slow. I have not done exhaustive testing but it does appear that this is a very good product.

Testato funziona perfettamente.

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