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Question: Can I use this to connect 2.5" SATA SSD to a computer's 3.5" IDE port?
Document: If I ghost with USB it takes hours vs. minutes when over direct 40 pin ide connection. So I give 5 stars for a good product but deduct 2 as it did not handle trim for SSD and bad experience with ghosting. It also requires you to fool about with a lot of cables if you want to connect two drives.
I also connected a 3.5&#34; to 2.5&#34; adapter in series with this converter and was able to access a laptop IDE drive.This device has a nice physical design, it's easy to grasp properly for connecting and disconnecting. You use the Y power cable to provide power to both the drive and the converter. Markings are clear and it was easy to figure out how to use it. Well worth the money.
SATA I -IDE bridge, bi-directional, works w/IDE or SATA port selector switch on SATA connectors determin SATA port connection or SATA drive connection, requires 4pin floppy pwr or included adaptor cable to function. If this came with a short (2-3&#34;) 40pin adaptor cbl to allow fit in tight space it would be perfet, may be too tall fo IDE socket on MB where periferal devices and or drive bays block use.and for strain relief on periferal device.
This plugs into your IDE data port on your hard drive (if you are going IDE to SATA) and then has a SATA data connection and a SATA power connection on this device. It might be obvious to most people but I completely overlooked the fact that the SATA power  connector only powers this device and not the hard drive. You still have to connect the power to the hard drive. So essentially, you have 2 separate power connections, 1 to this device and the 2nd to the hard drive.
I have my first computer that I use everyday. It has seen it's original pentium 385MHz, go to a pentium lll 800MHz [slot 1], pentium 4, 2.4GHz, 2.6GHz, 3.0GHz, and 3.01GHz. It is long overdue an upgrade to a core i7 3.5GHz that I've put off due to the fact you can no longer obtain a beige DVD SATA, nor can you obtain an IDE motherboard.
I've been using it to hook up old IDE drives outside my computer. I attach the converter to the IDE drive then connect a cable from the SATA port on the converter to a SATA port on my computer. File transfers back and forth to and from the drive are smooth using both Windows and Linux. I used to use USB to IDE converters but those didn't work properly for all my drives, plus they were slower when they did work.
After the hdd on my Toshiba Satellite broke i was forced to use my old crappy dell deminsion for homework and business (Pentium 3,512mb ram,yay...) The cheapest laptop hdd i could find was around $45 but i saw this and had an idea. I bought this ($12) and a Monoprice 12-inch SATA Male/Female Extension Cable ($3), plugged the female end into the converter then the male end into the sata port on my laptop.
Great product. Connected it to my IDE Master connection to support a SATA DVD Writer. My Slave connection supports a IDE DVD Writer. And my upper 2 SATA connectors support Blu-ray drives. So I got 3 total SATA drives, & 1 IDE Drive. This Bi-directional device is working great!. No problem.
I also found that with my intel SSD you need to have a hard drive plugged into the 2nd ide slot on the cable (does not need power, just the 40 pin ribbon connect to the drive) - if the cable is not populated the ssd will not boot most of the time (a regular SATA hard drive that was not ssd did not seem to have this issue but you may experience other termination problems?).
I bought two to connect 2 IDE drives to a SATA motherboard and had no problems.I found the instructions buried between the two sheet cardboard package insertafter I was done and still had no problem connecting them.
Answer: Worked fine on a SATA DVD drive to IDE port, not sure about a SATA hard drive but don't see why not.