IDE to SATA Power Splitter Cable,LP4 4Pin IDE to 5 x15 Pin SATA Power Conversion Line Extension Y-Cable for Hard Disk

This item worked great in a computer tower with all 5 hard drives mounted in their appropriate inline positions. It drops the time of cable management for a clean looking system.

"Shucking" is the process of buying cheap external hard drives and removing them from their "Shell". Hard drive manufacturers do not care for this process. Many of the current external drives have been switched over the a USB interface that is soldered onto the circuit board. For those that have a more conventional interface with SATA, they have create a 3.3 volt system. 3.3 volts was a common voltage used within computers and it included in the SATA power interface, however, the hard drives do not need it. So manufacturers "sense" 3.3 volts, they know that the drive has been shucked and it is therefore rendered inop for as long as it senses 3.3 volts. This adapter comes from the 4 line "Molex" connector. It only has 12 volts, 5 volts and two grounds. No 3.3 volts. Any hard drive plugged in will not receive 3.3 and therefore will work in a PC or server.

Seriously, I don't. What I do know is I have a rack-mount system that I only had a 4-pin Molex to 2x SATA power adapter and I was adding 2 more drives via another bracket. I only needed 4 more SATA power connectors, but I think this worked out for the best as the extra cabling provided a bit of slack. The wire is decently thick gauge and mostly stays bent however you set it. I was able to route the cabling and plug in all 4 drives easily.

Useful little power adapter. Works great for my needs. I just wish the cables used were a bit more flexible - it can be a bit challenging to plug into some stacked 2.5" drives

Works great. Steady output. Solid sheathing, solid adapters.

Great.

Has the typical cheap Molex Crimps that can easily be pushed out the back of the connector when plugging it in. Rest of the cable seems nice.

FIRE HAZARD/MAY DESTROY HARDWARE. No idea what happened but like a few other reviews said, this IMMEDIATELY cooked 2 hard drives I had just confirmed that day were still working. One of them started getting so hot I could smell it and couldn't touch it long enough to unplug it. Had to flip the PSU switch. I assume there's some incorrect wiring with this.

Easy to connect and holds firm. It's currently powering four enterprise HDDs in RAID5 with no problem for a week. Worked through hefty initializations and rebuilds. I tested 5 HDDs (non-RAID) for fun and no problems during an 8 hour dskchk using all drives simultaneously. I am VERY pleased considering other 2 and 3-way splitters from other sellers periodically dropped power to my arrays. This 5-way splitter is excellent.

Good quality and worked perfect as expected.

Product shipped does not match listing picture. The cables are not the same. You can see in the first image that the wires comes out the back of the connector, while the shipped item, the calbes is coming out the bottom of the connector.

Sticks out quite a bit from the hard drives I have it plugged into - make sure you have a decent amount of clearance. Otherwise, solid cable, as described.

Needed to hook some SSDs to a media center and this cable helped with that. It's been working fine and looks clean.