chenyang 3.5" IDE/PATA 40Pin Hard Disk Drive to SATA Motherboard Adapter Converter

Thought it didn't work at first - someone in the Q&A here helpfully reminded me you need to use a jumper to master the drive, so if you're having trouble, try that. After that, it worked like a charm!!! I was able to copy all the data off 3 old drives, checked for integrity, it worked flawlessly. Only gripe, and honestly the manufacturer is doing their best here so I can't dock any points for it - it's too bulky to fit in many hard drive caddies, so you're going to be holding your drives in the old fashioned way (screws). Not that manufacturer's fault - it's as slim as it could be. Also - this is for connecting an old (female IDE) drive to a new (female SATA, male SATA cable) mobo. Don't go complaining if you try and go the other way and it doesn't work - there are a TON of products out there for that, this just isn't one of them. I'll try to edit with pictures later.

This saved more than one projet of mine, seems some older motherboards wanna be all sata with one IDE can cause problems, this is the fix, Grat Product!

I thought this would resolve a problem cheap and quick but boy I was wrong. I installed this adapter correctly and thought that would be the end of my problems but shortly afterwards my system became unstable to the point where I had to remove it. My computer was freezing up and screens were taking way too long to load. It was easy to install and fit perfectly onto the drive but it was a total piece of junk. Even while I had it installed my system wouldn't even recognize it. I just went ahead a purchased a sata drive to eliminate the headaches. I definitely wouldn't recommend this adapter.

I bought this to add an IDE DVD drive I had lying around to an all SATA PC. I was concerned from other reviews in that all my SATA ports were AHCI and I couldn't change an individual one to IDE. However, it seems to have not made a difference. I did have to set the drive to Master and force it to drive D, letting it choose it's on letter didn't work. I have burned a DVD with it, but at a fairly slow speed - I have yet to try at the drive's max speed so I don't yet know if it's running at full speed. I will update if it fails, otherwise assume it's good. The only other installation issue is that it was somewhat difficult to insert into the IDE port, pretty tight and I had some concern about bending a pin - but I got it in with no damage. Then once I figured out the drive D lettering it booted up fine.

I used this to convert an optical drive to SATA for a motherboard that doesn't have an IDE connector. But the results were strangely inconsistent. This is what happens on a UEFI board. At first it's recognized as a UEFI bootable drive. So far a week I could actually use it to boot a live CD of Linux or even a diagnostic disc. Not anymore. For some reason after a week, it no longer recognized it as a UEFI bootable disk in BIOS. So now it will not boot a DVD or CD at all. Instead I have to use an external DVD ROM to boot any DVD or CD. This is weird. It's set as master on the jumper. To get this to even be recognized properly, this had to be powered through both the floppy connector and through the SATA connector. I'm going to replace this with an actual SATA optical drive. I'm sure there's some use for it but not with this motherboard.

This isnt for me its for my great grandson, the one whos writing this, I like it , works, shows the drive in file explorer, just using to get data recovered and off of it with diskgenious

At first I was a little worried after reading some reviews about others having no luck with this adapter, especially with CD/DVD-ROMs. I set my drive to master, plugged this adapter to the IDE input on the drive along with the 4-pin Molex power cable (included with adapter), plugged in the SATA power & data cables to the adapter and booted PC. Drive came up reads and writes as it should! Might have to get another for my old IDE HDD’s. One thing to note on the item I received was one of the individual power cables on the adapter side (smaller connector) was not inserted all the way into the connector. A little shove onto the connector and I head the click and it seated just fine and was no longer loose.

I was getting frustrated since I couldn’t get my 3.5” ide drive to be recognized. I looked at the picture the seller uses for listing this item. I zoomed into it and copied the jumper of my HDD to theirs and it worked. So no happy. Only issue I have now is that windows won’t allow access to the content of the drive but that’s nothing to do with the product.

it works well and allows me to transfer my data from old disk to new ssd

Testé pour récupérer les données d'un vieux HDD 2.5, ça a fonctionné sans problème.

yes as expected this convertor adopter served the purpose what i wanted to . its a good quality item. and i am happy with my purchase

Very handy and useful. Converter old ide to sata and being used in new desktop.

Çok kullanışlı bir ürün kalitesi falan herşeyi mükemmel