Addonics ADSAIDE SATA to IDE-ATAPI Converter by Addonics
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Digital camera reviews of Addonics ADSAIDE SATA to IDE-ATAPI Converter
Digital camera Review: Not a fix for an old motherboard
Summary: 2 Stars
If you are buying this adapter to put a large, modern SATA drive in an older computer, you will probably be disappointed.
I bought the new Western Digital 2TB SATA hard drive (WD20EADS) and tried to put it on my older motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP. The motherboard has 2 1.5 GB/s SATA ports, but the drive wouldn't work on them. The system hung during boot at the point where the Silicon Image controller for the SATA ports is initialized. Some bug in the SATA firmware and it can't be updated. So I bought the Addonics SATA converter to put the 2TB hard drive on a regular IDE port.
It seemed to work OK at first. I was able to copy all the data from the old hard drive over to the new drive (with the new drive connected through the Addonics adapter) using the Acronis disk cloning utility from a boot CD. Then I installed the WD 2TB drive in my system and booted Windows. It booted OK and seemed to work, but when I tried to defragment the new drive, the defrag routine finished without defragmenting 90+% of the fragmented files. No errors, it just said it couldn't defrag them. It didn't say why.
Then when I copied some files from one directory to another, I got a Delayed Write Fail error, though I couldn't find anything wrong with the copied files.
When I tried converting some photos from RAW to JPG format, it took twice as long as with a regular IDE drive. This is the killer problem for me. I need the speed, and if you can tolerate the slow speed, you might as well buy a PCI plug-in card with 4 SATA ports on it. The Addonics adapter just doesn't seem to have the speed that you would expect. I checked to be sure that it was running in Ultra DMA mode, and it was, so that wasn't the issue.
I was hoping that this adapter would let me run the 2 TB drive in my computer. I am still not sure whether the problems lie with my computer or the adapter, but it doesn't really matter. Either way it doesn't work and there doesn't seem to be a fix. I should have just put the money in my piggybank towards a newer motherboard.
Digital camera Review: OK but not very strudy
Summary: 2 Stars
the connection to the SATA card do not connect firmley. Depending on your configuration, the new drive with this adapter may make it too tall. I can't have my on/off switch connected because the card impedes the use of the switch. Need to get a different cable. It works, but it's not sturdy and not perfect.Digital camera Review: Only SATA converter I could get to work with older hardware
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, I tried the USB 2.0 to SATA converters, like Apricorn Drivewire Universal HDD Adapter USB To 2.5IN & 3.5IN Sata & Pata and another one which I don't recall. To be fair, I don't have an up-to-date Windows machine-- only a six year old Pentium III with a USB 2.0 PCI card, and a newer MacBook. Neither one worked with a drive.
I finally bought this gizmo, and hooked it up (internally) between the IDE cable and the SATA 250GB drive. The BIOS (from 2001!) saw it, and it worked like a charm.
I suspect the Apricorn Drivewire might work easily on a newer PC, but if you are trying to hook up large harddrives to older machines (to make inexpensive backup servers), you might want this in your toolbox. I'm ordering a second one right now.
Digital camera Review: Perfect adapter for putting a new drive in an old computer
Summary: 5 Stars
The CD-ROM drive on my parents' computer broke, so I installed a new drive, but couldn't connect it because the connectors didn't match (drive was a SATA, while computer had IDE connections). I ordered this adapter, installed it easily, and their new CD-ROM drive now works perfectly.Digital camera Review: Perfect for using SATA on older machines
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this because I have an older standalone machine that I just use for secondary storage for my Norton Ghost images. I had some spare WD 640G Sata drives laying around but no IDE drives larger than the one I had in there.
I hooked this up (plugs right into the back of your Sata drive) and set the master/slave jumper.
The machine instantly recognized the drive as an ATA 133 EIDE drive.
What could be simpler!
It does exactly what it says.