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Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Very Good
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Rating: 8.12/10
Skah
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Review Date: 09/15/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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This product allowed me to use a challenging drive and dvd writer on a SATA only motherboard. Once I switched the jumpers on the devices they worked great. The only dilemma I had was I could not uncover directions on how to set up the devices. I eventually identified that just removing the jumpers didn't work; I had to move the jumpers to the 1st (or last?) position on each devices and then they worked. I wonder if people who couldn't get it to function didn't try changing the jumper positions.
Amber
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Review Date: 09/08/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Does what it is suppose to do. None
Felipe
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Review Date: 08/30/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Plug and play. Make confident your HDD is set to Master. Used in a DVR. Necessary more adapter cable. This product really should ship with a 15 pin energy to four pin power adapter as an alternative of a L4P to 4 pin power adapter. Requires up space in an already cramped case.
Flannery
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Review Date: 08/24/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Works great. Easy to install. None
Fremont
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Review Date: 08/17/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Smaller. Effortless to use. All parts incorporated. It operates. The evaluations I study here. Some very good, some undesirable. But for the price, I decided to by two. I am not sure what went wrong with several of the reviewers here, but the item operates good.I set my Maxtor IDE 40GB HD to Master, plugged int the adapter, plugged in the incorporated energy cable to the unit and my HD. Added power from the PSU and employed my personal SATA cable.Fired up the program, identified the HD without problem and working excellent.I do not even know if directions have been integrated, it was that simple.
Marci
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Review Date: 08/16/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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real excellent thought in principle, in practice tho it sucks. Plugged 1 in, booted up and everything was fine. Shut down and rebooted later and it wouldn't perform. Put the other one particular I'd ordered in and it worked for a couple days, then woulnd't. Brand new Asus motherboard and almost everything is new, was attempting to use my IDE cd burner mainly because its only a handful of months old but ended up purchasing a sata a single that would hook up to the board far better.
Trygg
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Review Date: 07/27/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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- - used on a 280gb IDE backup storage drive. Got a new motherboard (msi k9 series) which has 6sata and 1 ide. necessary the ide for primary HD and cd drive, used this adapter to use my backupdrive via sata ports. setup was a tiny funky, but had it workin in much less then five min.small clunky on the back of HD- does the job it needs to.if your looking about for an adapter for ide-sata, this is a decent value for something that operates.
Burgess
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Review Date: 07/03/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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I do household visit IT work and I required one thing to make backing up client information fast and simple. This was the ticket. Mounts drives quickly and makes it possible for quickly backup of their data. Plug is a bit lengthy, which suggests I sometimes have to remove the hard drive from a chassis alternatively of plugging it in while installed. Can make the job take a tiny longer, but not a huge deal.
Nibal
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Review Date: 07/02/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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It operates. none At very first it didn't perform, i put the tough drive to master, slave or cable choose and still it didn’t function. Then I realized that I put the converter in incorrect way. I flip convertor and place it in the right direction and it worked. Make positive that it’s in the proper path.
Oakley
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Review Date: 06/19/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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It helped me plug and IDE tough drive from my old laptop into the motherboard of my new computer system. took as well extended to arrive from some New Jersey warehouse
Jacoba
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Review Date: 05/23/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Functions. Cheaply produced.The SATA cable that came with it didn't work. Fortunately I had a few sitting around.
Nero
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Review Date: 05/21/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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My Asus boards bios recongnized & ID'd this as a SATA CD ROM. Booted from this device and installed Windows 7 without having any problems. CD rom copy software program operates fine as well. none Make certain you observe plug polarity and make confident there is energy going to each the adapter and the device (comes with Y power adapter).
Naja
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Review Date: 05/17/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Operates fantastic with my Samsung (Light Scribe) DVD writer. Practically nothing at all! Program didn't reconize it at initial. So I changed the jumper on the DVD writer from SLAVE to CABLE Select. Operates fine now.
Didrika
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Review Date: 05/12/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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This is a sweet little device for taking benefit of your old IDE drives as you evolve to the SATA interface. You wont abruptly have a rapidly IDE drive, but you'll have all of that existing storage readily available to you. Truly plug and play. Just make note that you have to use the SATA energy for the circuit board and a standard drive energy for your IDE drive . . . nearly missed that by not reading the paragraph of instruction. None.
Mallorie
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Review Date: 05/06/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Applied this to convert a 250GB HDD, functions fine. Not anywhere close to as rapidly as SATA drives, but I didnt anticipate it to be.
Beatrix
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Review Date: 04/05/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Functions excellent. Plugged it in and it worked the 1st time. Saved me lots of money by not obtaining to acquire a new difficult drive. None
Jamal
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Review Date: 04/02/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Hooked correct up, worked very first time. none I didnt even know it came with instuctions till reading these critiques. I have a new sata mb and hd, wanted to use my old tough drive also. Just plug and play, uncomplicated. I cant see why so a lot of have challenges.
Naoko
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Review Date: 03/30/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Straightforward hook up. Operate 1st time. A lot cheaper than acquiring a different tough drive. None!!!! Operates best!!! It does what it'supposed to do. The only thing is, you have to make positive you know that it requirements energy to it. I'm pondering that's why some persons gave it a poor assessment. It comes with a tiny energy spliter. As lengthy as you hook the smaller connecter to the unit. The substantial 1 to whatever your hooking up and the lead to your energy supply. It's a no brainer. My personal computer spotted it right away. I formatted the really hard drive I'm useing it on and I was ready to go. It even shows my computer that it's truly a IDE challenging drive and not a SATA. I hugely recommnd it, it's a lot less expensive then acquiring another drive.
Ade
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Review Date: 03/17/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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From time to time my tough drive shows up? Normally my difficult drive does not show up. My dvd drive will not show up at all. My motherboard is an ASUS M3A78-T. When attaching this device to my dvd burner the burner does not show up or perform. I utilized it on a tough drive and commonly the really hard drive could not be accessed and did not show up. I bought two of these not knowing this motherboard did have 1 IDE plug so I attempted each units with the identical benefits.
Livvy
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Review Date: 03/16/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Does the job. I was able to use an older IDE DVD drive that I had just lying around. Make the drive stick out further into the case. Make shure you have sufficient room.
Tanginika
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Review Date: 03/03/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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I am confident there would be a lot had it worked The device, in this case a hard drive, was under no circumstances recognized. This product doesn't perform. Why is this getting sold at all? I have been tinkering with it for some time attempting to get it to work. RMA I guess, don't know what else to do.
Kailani
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Review Date: 03/02/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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upgraded motherboard, but had old ide harddrives, and cdrom. worked good. want it applied sata energy connector.
Dugan
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Review Date: 02/28/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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I have three just about new IDE drives used for backups only. These have been unable to be used when the new SATA board came in so I utilised them as USB external. 3 external enclosures use alot of energy and the usb is slow.(not to mention the other externals we had been already utilizing, I had a freekin stack of externals!)I thought that this was my only solution till I identified this at yet another retailer. I did not acquire from NewEgg, but they are nonetheless more affordable.This item is a life saver, now I can use my brand new IDE drives on my SATA board as additional storage.I now have two SATA drives and 3 IDE drives in my case.Also upgraded PSU from 400w to 600w.The power savings alone will pay for these in a couple of months.Installation was a breeze, just had to get the jumpers appropriate, I could not set mine to master, as my two existing drive's RAID settings conflicted, so they are set to slave. and operate just fine in my machineVista HomePre 32bit quad core 4gb ram.IDE's are 500gb 7200rpm Seagate Barracudas The 1 and only con is that with drives that have the connectors facing the side access panel, this unit will stick out and not enable you to close the side panel. The Resolution, get a daisy chain IDE ribbon and relocate the adapter to inside the case. Really easy and will expense you about ū-5. Immediately after using these for a week, they are the ideal addition to my workspace.I no longer have the droning hum of my external enclosures and the fans.I was capable to rid my desk of a bunch of cords and clutter.I can now run my BU's whenever I want to..no need to have to get my fat self out of the chair to go turn on the externals.speeds are fast. more quickly than my USB enclosures at least. I no longer feel I am wasting the capabilities of my new IDE. drives.
Awen
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Review Date: 02/18/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Permitted me to use an old IDE drive on a new Sata mb. Extremely effortless installation, comes with every little thing you will need. None.
Selia
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Review Date: 02/18/13
Vantec IDE to SATA converter
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Reasonably value Didn't come with a Molex to SATA energy adapter.
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