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StarTech.com SATA IDE Adapter - SATA IDE Adapter - Bi-Directional - IDE to SATA Adapter (PATA2SATA3): Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

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Hardware interface	IDE, ATA
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Bi-Directional support for IDE-to-SATA or SATA-to-IDE communication
Compatible with PATA (IDE) 100/133 MBps hard devices
Compatible with SATA revision 1/2/3 (1.5/3.0/6.0 Gbps) devices
Supports SATA/IDE ATAPI devices, such as CD/DVD optical drives
Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a specifications, with transfer rates up to 1.5 Gbps

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Bi-directional adapter converts IDE to SATA or SATA to IDE


This is a bi-directional SATA IDE adapter/converter that lets you connect a Serial ATA drive to a legacy IDE port, or an IDE drive to a SATA motherboard port.	A cost-effective solution for upgrading existing IDE systems to support SATA hard drives or optical drives, the SATA/IDE adapter eliminates the expense of having to purchase a controller card while saving the expansion slot that would be required for card installation.	In addition to SATA hard drive installation, the adapter can be reversed in order to connect older IDE drives to a newer SATA-enabled motherboard, making it easy to retrieve old files from a previous system.

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Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 5 x 1.1 cm; 20 Grams
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ 1 Jan. 2010
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Startech
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00310MFPY
Item model number ‏ : ‎ PATA2SATA3
Department ‏ : ‎ accessories general
Guaranteed software updates until ‏ : ‎ unknown

Best Sellers Rank: 90,950 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
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Customers like the quality, value, and build quality of the input output card. They mention that it's an excellent piece of kit, and well worth the cost. Customers are also happy with the build quality. That said, some complain about the recognition, saying that the BIOS does not see the hard disc attached. Customers disagree on performance, and ease of installation.

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21 customers mention21 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the quality of the input output card. They mention it's an excellent piece of kit, works brilliantly to connect a SATA drive to an IDE motherboard connector, and charges all devices at once. Overall, this is an excellent converter that works brillianty to connect SATA drives to an SATA motherboard connector and vice versa.

"...dvd rewriter dvr109 on windows 11 pc saving it from landfill - great product and easy to fit and get working...." Read more

"...Overall, this is an excellent converter, easy to use and I should also add that StarTech has excellent on-line customer support via a chat facility...." Read more

"This adapter is of decent quality & works for both connecting a sata drive to ide mobo header & vice versa...." Read more

"This product works brilliantly to connect a SATA drive to an IDE motherboard connector...." Read more

9 customers mention9 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the product. They mention that it is well worth the cost and that the fact that it's not cheap is reassuring.

"...Overall a good and economical way of re-using old IDE hardware on newer Sata motherboards even vice-versa" Read more

"...The unit seems well made, and the fact that it isn't cheap is actually quite reassuring - I assume that some decent quality components have been..." Read more

"...Works great replacing the dvd drive would have cost more hence excellent value." Read more

"...data from that drive saved me a lot of agrevation making it well worth the cost of the unit." Read more

6 customers mention6 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the build quality of the product. They mention that it seems well made and is a very good product.

"...The unit seems well made, and the fact that it isn't cheap is actually quite reassuring - I assume that some decent quality components have been..." Read more

"...Build is solid.Installation was easy and quick and I had no problems at all.I have now ordered second adaptor" Read more

"...seeing the connected drive (jumper on drive set to master) Very good product" Read more

"Excellent product well manufactured. Used to convert and allows use of older hard disks in more up to date systems...." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the speed of delivery of the product. They mention that it was quick as always and that the service provided by Amazon is excellent.

"...So I’ve ordered only one. Delivery was quick as always , excellent service by Amazon...." Read more

"Worked like a dream. No problem at all setting up. Delivery very prompt." Read more

"Excellent product fast postage." Read more

"good value, quick service" Read more

62 customers mention40 positive22 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the adapter converter. Some mention that it worked quite well, while others say that it did not work to convert an IDE drive to fit into the Sata drive socket.

"...11 pc saving it from landfill - great product and easy to fit and get working. Set everything to master and it's really just plugnplay" Read more

"...Connection of the adapter was easy and it worked straightaway...." Read more

"...For me, it wouldn't work properly with the drive set to master, but once on cable select it worked just fine...." Read more

"...It works well with a WD Caviar Blue UATA 6...." Read more

19 customers mention13 positive6 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of installation of the adapter. Some mention that it's simple to install and connect IDE drives to a modern SATA motherboard, while others say that the included instructions are barebones and lack troubleshooting advice.

"...Overall, this is an excellent converter, easy to use and I should also add that StarTech has excellent on-line customer support via a chat facility...." Read more

"...Connection of the adapter was easy and it worked straightaway...." Read more

"...The sheet of instructions is very basic and contains no troubleshooting advice...." Read more

"...Build is solid.Installation was easy and quick and I had no problems at all.I have now ordered second adaptor" Read more

6 customers mention3 positive3 negative

Customers are mixed about the fit of the product. Some mention that it's easy to fit and get working, while others say that it didn't fit and was not fit for purpose.

"...dvr109 on windows 11 pc saving it from landfill - great product and easy to fit and get working...." Read more

"...Not fit for purpose as these disks are used for backup of system images (30-60GB)...." Read more

"...Fitting is straight forward as it fits into a 2.5 inch drive bay and uses SATA power and data cables as expected...." Read more

"...the power adapter cable as well because the molex 4 pin plug does not fit SATA drives." Read more

7 customers mention0 positive7 negative

Customers have reported issues with the recognition of the adapter. They mention that the drive was not detected by the BIOS in either Master nor Slave modes. They also mention that it simply did not see the drive at all.

"...I found that only Cable Select mode worked - the drive was not detected by the BIOS in either Master nor Slave modes...." Read more

"...Well it's as if the adapter is not working or the bios cannot interpret whatever data/signals coming through the adapter...." Read more

"Delivered in double quick time, however my Ide drive is not seen by the motherboard, I have tried no jumper, master slave and cable but nothing..." Read more

"...the bios wasn't detecting the HDDs...." Read more

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Great piece of kit for older pata dvd drives

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2023

Size Name: SATA/IDE DriveStyle Name: SATA/IDEVerified Purchase

Allowed me to use my older pata dvd rewriter dvr109 on windows 11 pc saving it from landfill - great product and easy to fit and get working. Set everything to master and it's really just plugnplay

Works fine controlling an IDE drive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2021

Size Name: SATA/IDE DriveStyle Name: SATA/IDEVerified Purchase

This product worked exactly as intended. In my case I was connecting IDE drives to a SATA motherboard. As others have mentioned, you might have to change the jumpers on your IDE drive to set it to "cable select" rather than master or slave. For me, it wouldn't work properly with the drive set to master, but once on cable select it worked just fine. You will need a spare molex connector coming off your PSU to connect to the IDE drive. I'm not sure if very recent PSUs still have a molex connector, but if yours doesn't, you can always buy a molex to sata power cable converter for a few pounds.

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Works well after a bit of experimentation with jumpers, but the instruction leaflet is too basic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2015

Size Name: SATA/IDE DriveStyle Name: SATA/IDEVerified Purchase

I'm using this device to connect an old Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 IDE hard drive into my SATA-only computer.

At first, my computer's BIOS wouldn't recognise the IDE hard drive at all. The sheet of instructions is very basic and contains no troubleshooting advice. I read other reviews on Amazon looking for ideas, and saw several people mention changing the jumpers on the IDE drive.

As with other reviewers, I found that only Cable Select mode worked - the drive was not detected by the BIOS in either Master nor Slave modes. An added bit of difficulty was that I had to Google how to set the drive's jumpers correctly because the diagram on the hard drive itself was incomprehensible!

Now, I get solid red and green LEDs on this adapter, which I assume means it's operating correctly. Previously, I was only getting a solid red LED.

Both my BIOS and Windows 8 correctly detect the Maxtor IDE drive and I'm able to retrieve the data that I needed and copy it to another drive.

NOTE: My motherboard's SATA controller operates in AHCI mode (setting in the BIOS). This works fine with this adapter and there was no need to change the BIOS setting to work in IDE mode.

11 people found this helpful

Simple to install

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2013

Size Name: SATA/IDE DriveStyle Name: SATA/IDEVerified Purchase

Having rebuilt my PC, it wasn't until I came to connect the hard drives that I made the realisation that I'd forgotten to check my hard drive and optical drive were compatible with SATA connectors. Fortunately, I discovered these adapters which are stupidly simple to use.

They are two-way so can handle SATA to IDE or IDE to SATA convertion and also as I've stated, HDD or optical drives. The connections are clearly marked so it is nigh on impossible to wire these up incorrectly (handy if like me, you're knowledge of such things is limited). What you should note is that they require a SATA power connector in addition to the SATA data cable. There is a single SATA cable supplied in the box. The connected device will also require it's own power supply.

The converter will protrude almost 6cm from the rear of your connected device so you should consider this and ensure you have enough room within your PC case.

Overall, this is an excellent converter, easy to use and I should also add that StarTech has excellent on-line customer support via a chat facility. You can't go wrong with this one.

One person found this helpful

Very very slowwwww....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2019

Size Name: SATA/IDE DriveStyle Name: SATA/IDEVerified Purchase

Had hoped for better. Intended purpose was to connect old IDE/PATA drives to SATA controllers so as to avoid using old controller cards. Connection of the adapter was easy and it worked straightaway. However, on the old controller cards, these disks manage about 50MB/s read and 45MB/s write for large sustained writes (too big to cache). On the Bi-Directional SATA IDE Adapter Converter, write speeds were less than a tenth of that at 2-4MB/s. Tried on 3 different disks; setting disks as cable select or master made no difference. Position of switches on the adapter (which are inadequately described on the instruction sheet) made no difference. Not fit for purpose as these disks are used for backup of system images (30-60GB). Might just about be adequate for low workloads with small (cacheable) files if desperate.

4 people found this helpful

Need an adaptor to connect a new sata drive to an old ide motherboard? ***IMPORTANT INFORMATION***

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2015

Size Name: SATA/IDE DriveStyle Name: SATA/IDEVerified Purchase

This adapter is of decent quality & works for both connecting a sata drive to ide mobo header & vice versa. HOWEVER: PLEASE be aware that if you intend to connect a sata drive to an old ide mobo...then this adapter will ONLY work when directly plugged into the mobo. It WILL NOT work connected to a standard ide cable via a male gender changer.

The reason for this being; keyed IDE female connections are always a "mirror image" of the male headers. This means that the wiring of the "male" ide pins on your drive/device will be in the same orientation as the "male" header on the mobo...and all "female" cable connectors will maintain an opposite/mirrored image of those "male" counterparts.

Therefore in order to use this "female" ide-sata converter with another "female" connection at the drive end of your ide cable...you will need to purchase a special set of male gender changer pins which actually "flip"/"mirror" the orientation of the pins from one connection to the other...otherwise the device will not be recognised as the pins are in the complete opposite orientation to one another. The aforementioned gender changers do exist, however they are a rarity (the more common variant being a simple 40pin gender changer, which wont work however as it doesn't provide the necessary pin "re-orientation" that is essential for this configuration to work).

So be aware that this converter will really only work if you have the space to plug it directly into the ide header on your mobo, but if you - like me with my imac g4 - don't have the physical space for this (and have to use a ribbon cable to move the adapter out of the way), then you'll ideally need to order a different converter. One with male pins as opposed to a female connection ***The same company "StarTech" actually have an alternative available here; http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-Pin-PATA-SATA-Adapter/dp/B00EOJNGC2/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1446313794&sr=1-3&keywords=startech+sata+ide***

2 people found this helpful

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Dan

Good

Reviewed in Canada on 13 February 2024

Size Name: Dual M.2 (SATA) DriveStyle Name: 2.5 Inch SATAVerified Purchase

Used on a mini pc for media-serveur

Gerardo G Ocampo A.

Excelente

Reviewed in Mexico on 26 January 2024

Size Name: Dual M.2 (SATA) DriveStyle Name: 2.5 Inch SATAVerified Purchase

Recomendable agregar recomendaciones de compatibilidad con diferentes m.2 del mercado actual.

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Billy Wickliffe

Literally "Plug n Play"

Reviewed in the United States on 5 August 2021

Size Name: SATA DriveStyle Name: mSATAVerified Purchase

Bought an replacement multi core computer for a much slower 2 core computer. Couldn't justify the expense
of the msata SSD, when I had a 2 1/2 inch SSD in the much older computer with the OS already installed.

Just plug this little adapter in the msata socket on the mother board. Secure it with the provided screws and plug your external SSD drive cable in. Windows, of course, detected the change but accepted the new hardware with no hassle.

One person found this helpful

Leif

Vilka M.2 den passar till

Reviewed in Sweden on 29 February 2024

Size Name: Dual M.2 (SATA) DriveStyle Name: 2.5 Inch SATAVerified Purchase

Det finns flera M.2 konfigurationer och det framgår inte tydligt vilken den passar till.

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Dan Brock

Exactly what I needed, works beautifully.

Reviewed in the United States on 19 January 2021

Size Name: Dual M.2 (SATA) DriveStyle Name: 2.5 Inch SATAVerified Purchase

After upgrading my computer, the only thing worth salvaging from the old machine was some m2 SSD storage. It was incredibly difficult to find an m2 to SATA adapter that doesn't require dual SATA data cables. I only had a single SATA data and power cable left on the chassis harness.

The pins on my unit were set exactly the way I wanted (extend two m2s into a single logical unit), I still had to go through the power cycle with the unit on SET, shut down, move the shorting bridge back to its default position and power up. As soon as that was done, the computer immediately recognized the drive and wanted to format it.
The only criticism I have (and its minor) is a little diagram showing where the pins are on the card. It took me way longer to understand what the instruction card was referring to, and the pins the instruction card refers to are on opposite sides of the card.

But this is exactly what I wanted, exactly what I needed, it was super easy to install and get running, I would recommend.

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