StarTech PEX2IDE PCIe IDE Controller Adapter Card

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I needed one of these for a customer with older IDE drives she wanted to use in a new system. It's pretty barebones, but Windows XP picked it up immediately and I had no issues accessing the drives. It supposedly can be used for OS install source/destination drives, but I have not been able to test this. It includes an IDE cable (as if I don't have enough) and a low profile bracket for those who need it. That said, I'd suggest you price match, because at time of writing $35 is a bit much for the functionality offered.

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cannt say much since it was dead when i got it

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Does what it's supposed to do, but instructions to get it running were sketchy. I'm using this to adapt my SATA-only motherboard to work with my old IDE hard drive. Works okay, with acceptable data rates and no hiccups so far. Unfortunately this adapter didn't come with recommendations about the required master slave HD jumper settings. Turns out, that if you leave the master slave jumper off the old IDE HD, the adapter will work properly. Success through trial and error with Windows 7 64b. Also, this product has an unattractive splash screen that displays during system boot for about 5 secs that I haven't yet been able to disable.

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I used this in an upgrade from an old ECS MB, AMD Athlon XP, with IDE drives. Trying to get the best for the least, not haveing to buy all new drives, Igot this card. The instructions that came with it were not the greatest on telling you what to expect when building a mostly new upgrade. However, once I figured out the process it works great, and saved to cost of all new drives.

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I used this product in a new build. I installed this for further expansion have not had to use as of yet.

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I have used the product for 6 weeks now. No problem installing. The transfer data rate for me is disappointing. Playing video from a hard drive attached to this card is jerky and music is broken.

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this worked well to and an older IDE drive to my computer with only SATA

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This card is performing as advertised.

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Upgraded my motherboard to Asus M4N78 Pro and discovered that the 2nd IDE was for floppy drives. Purchased this board which fit in an available PCI-E (X1) slot. Problem solved. Board is driving a Sony DVD-CD drive and a Zip drive with no difficulty.

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This is the way Plug-and-play is supposed to work. An excellent no-grief way to add a legacy IDE channel if you have an unused pci-x slot lying around.

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No problem installing and setting it up.

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I needed to adapt an internal IDE Travan 40 tape drive for a client to work in a system with only SATA ports. This worked perfectly the first time with no additional software or configuration needed. The adapters onboard BIOS interface worked seemlessly. I tried the Masscool CV-100 SATA to IDE Hard Drive Adapter first and had no success.