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The Kingwin SSD SATA to IDE Bridge Board Adapter enables effortless connection of SATA I/II/III 2.5” and 3.5” HDDs or SSDs to IDE motherboards. Featuring plug & play installation and a durable aluminum design, it supports up to 4TB storage and data transfer rates up to 3Gbps, making it the perfect tool to extend the life of older systems without compromising performance.
Enclosure Material | Aluminum |
Color | Not Specified |
Maximum Number of Supported Devices | 1 |
Hardware Platform | Sata |
Compatible Devices | Laptop |
Hardware Interface | IDE |
Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 Inches |
Data Transfer Rate | 3 Gigabits Per Second |
Memory Storage Capacity | 4 TB |
K**H
Works Pretty Well for an Alternative
Not sure how many people even use IDE anymore but this adapter works well if you need to access SATA on IDE. Most motherboards don't even have IDE on them anymore but this is a good alternative to using a docking station.
8**E
Computer Compontent
Good product
C**N
Works well
Works as advertised. You do need to adjust jumper. I removed the jumper so it could be used as a slave device (hard drive master). There are no directions on how to use or configuring especially when configuring with other devices. I discovered to remove the bumper by trial and error. Not sure you can have two slave devices (a DVD and CD rom for example) but may be a jumper. configuration problem. I could not get a second device working as a slave on the same data connection
P**N
Works exactly as specifed but...
Be aware that the jumper is a switch between IDE to SATA (connecting an IDE device to a SATA controller) and SATA to IDE (connecting an SATA device to an IDE controller). It is not a Master/Slave select. It can only exist on the bus as a Master. Unfortunately this not stated anywhere on the device or its packaging although there is plenty of space for this information. This information was gleaned from the Kingwin website.
F**.
Worked for me initially, but...
Used this in a 2005 Dell Dimension 3000 to install a Kingston SSD in place of two old EIDE hard drives. Since it came with no instructions, I did nothing other than plug it in, and it worked just as expected.Two caveats: 1) There are no jumpers for Master/Slave, so the attached drive comes up as Master and you have no choice; and 2) When the attached drive is accessed, neither the red led on the adapter nor the front panel drive activity led blink (curiously, they both DO blink if a slave drive is attached to the same IDE cable and IT is accessed!)UPDATE 9/30/2011: I've downgraded this review to 1-star because during a month of use with this adapter installed, my system locked up about every 3 days - locked up, tight as a drum, no mouse no keyboard, no display (if the display had been turned off by power management, otherwise the display was static with no cursor) - the only possible action was turn the machine off and reboot. This happened consistently every few days. I finally ordered the EZQuest IDE-SADA adapter from Other World Computing (see review on Amazon) and replaced this Kingwin adapter. Verdict: the EZQuest adapter has been working prefectly 24/7 for over a week now with no lock-ups. I can therefore only assume that the lock-ups were being caused by the Kingwin adapter (and not the Kingston SSD that I installed at the same time.) To top it all off, the EZQuest adapter DOES correctly pass along disk activity to the front panel LED, whereas the Kingwin adapter DOES NOT; and the EZQuest adapter DOES have a master/slave jumper, whereas the Kingwin adapter DOES NOT. Too much trouble to return it, I'm just tossing it in the trash.
D**O
Great IDE to SATA converter
Works perfectly. Very nice that it has tape on the pcb to prevent shorts. Running a modded OG XBox with a 2TB SSD and it was plug and play. Good quality product.
B**E
Works with tweaking
I got this adapter because my normal adapter (the Startech one with the red PCB) wasn't available, as well as a 128GB SSD, to use to upgrade one of my older PCs. BIOS saw the drive, cloning went without issue, perfect. Then we get to booting the operating system, and immediately I run into read errors.After much troubleshooting to no avail, I run across a Reddit solution: disable UDMA in the BIOS. I do that and it boots first try. Ultimately it works, but at least some will notice a disk performance hit if you do disable UDMA, which is the way to solve boot issues it would seem.Ultimately this isn't an adapter I would recommend if there is anything else available, but it ostensibly does its job.
K**8
Worked well on vintage emachines PC
I needed this adapter to install a new SATA SSD in a vintage emachines T1100 PC with IDE and molex cables. It fit and installed with ease and I was able to install Windows XP without issue. I like how there are indicator lights on the adapter as well. I was not able to run any speed tests, but I doubt it will be very fast considering the IDE portion. However, I'm positive it is still much faster than a standard mechanical drive. Would recommend!
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