NFHK SATA Disk to IDE/PATA 40Pin Motherboard Converter Adapter PCBA for Desktop & 2.5 3.5" Hard Disk Drive

Bought one of these and it didn't work (drive was recognized but data transfers froze), but I got a replacement right away and the replacement is perfect.It works very well, plug and play. The master/slave jumper is clearly labelled and performance is fine. So I have a newish SATA SSD in my old Power Macintosh G4 and it works like a charm.

Since PATA drives are less in-demand, therefore increasingly harder to find, and increasingly more expensive than their SATA mechanical or SSD equivalents (basic supply & demand), this is a great, cost-effective way to leverage some old hardware platforms with less expensive drives. I have a 20-year-old Windows development server (2003) that still runs my home network (DHCP, DNS, DFS, etc.) and that uses ultra-100 PATA drives, one of which, 320GB, began to fail recently. I had a spare 500GB SATA drive on hand and saw this little adapter gem so I decided to give it a try. I was skeptical, but I figured $10 was a reasonable price to at least give it a try. Worked with no problems.My only critiques:1. At $10 I guess I shouldn't complain, but it felt rather flimsy when connecting it to the drive and connecting the high-density PATA and power cable connections. Just be gentle with it.2. It came with no documentation. However, and old hardware jockey like me had no problem understanding the jumper setup. It comes configured as master, but the drive I was replacing was a slave. The jumper setting was only labeled on the circuit board for the default master configuration, so I assumed (correctly) that the other pin was for slave mode.Will buy again as my 4 other PATA drives begin to fail.

I have a legacy circa 2005 Pentium 4 based system that I want to keep running as is because it has specialized software running on it that cannot be re-installed on a fresh OS. It's running Windows XP SP2. The motherboard, in addition to the IDE HDD ports, has 2 SATA I ports. These are on the VIA chipset and they do not downgrade a SATA II device or higher down to SATA I. It's SATA one or the ports don't work. At first I set the jumpers on a SATA II HDD to force SATA I mode and that did work. But then I wondered if using this adapter and running the IDE cable to the new SSD that I cloned the original HDD to would be faster than the HDD SATA I drive. The answer is yes, this adapter with the SSD on the IDE channel is faster.One thing that is very interesting is that the original drive and the SSD have 3 NTFS partitions on them. The 2nd and 3rd partitions run significantly faster than the OS partion in CrystalDiskMark. I even re-arranged the partitions so that the C: partitiion/boot is 40GB and only 7% used and the CrystalDiskMark results aren't any better, so I guess that was not the reason. I don't know why the partitions produce different speed results.But the adapter works great. You have to be somewhat careful not to break it but now I have a new drive with my specialized apps on a 20 year old Windows XP system and it should run fine and at least 3x faster for a long time... (Don't worry, it's not connected to the internet.)

Disappointed by maybe not surprised. I have yet to find any of these SATA to IDE adapters that consistently work. I ordered 3, one the IDE socket was so tight it broken the IDE cable when I tried to remove it. That first adapter never powered up or showed any indication of power. The second adapter showed powered, but the drive never spins up, tried multiple cables, drives, set as master or slave, nothing. The third adapter the BIOS actually reported as seen, but could not access the drive to install operating system or even copy data over to it. So looks like 1 DOA, 1 failed in minutes, and one had incomplete function. I will be returning these. Since these adapters are sold all over Amazon and eBay... they are likely sourced from the same OEM... sad, really, have some nice older equipment I wanted to keep running, but IDE drives have all but disappeared. Tried MicroSD and SD card to IDE, no consistent boot functionality, now tried these drive adapter boards, no joy at all.

The adapters do work and they are nice and cheap.As others have stated, the boards are a bit flimsy, but I have taken them on and off my drives several times and they are holding up fine. There is a Master / Slave jumper, but no Cable Select option on the jumper.The issue I have is that the jumpers do not seem to work. I am guessing this is just for my use case because the other reviews do not mention any problems with the master / slave jumpers.I am trying to use four of these in an old four bay USB storage device (Venus T4U)I have tried to configure these every way possible but only one drive on each of the IDE interface will work at a time. If I add a second drive as a slave it will not recognize the drive, and neither of the drives will show up. I've tried every master / slave combo, removing both jumpers, master / master, slave / slave, but it will just not for me. I've decided to keep them and just use two drives in this, with one drive on each IDE interface.Overall I would suggest the purchase if you need them and don't have a weird use case like min.

Burned an old image to a SATA drive, connected this adapter to the SATA drive and hooked it to an old critical system that uses an IDE drive and proprietary ISA controller card. Booted right up.

Wanted to use one of my old IDE optical drives in my current (old too) computer. Wouldn't work with the first one (Lite-On LH-201A1H) I tried, so my hopes weren't high. Found it would work with multiple TSST brand drives, as well as a Lite-On SHW-1635S.