CERRXIAN SATA Female to 40 pin Male 3.5 inch IDE Adapter for PC to SATA Hard Drive Interface Adapter

If you want to convert the external Sony enclosure for the pcmcia Japanese PS2 (10000/15000/18000) from side to sata, due to space constraints you would have to use a 2.5” laptop sata drive.This adapter uses a JMicron 20330, I was explicitly looking for it due to my application.I used this adapter inside the scph 20400 and it supported a 3tb 2.5” sata hdd no problem, so now I can enjoy my japanesePS2 scph18000.The adapter came with black foam applied to the sata side to insulate the exposed contacts from touching the metal parts of the hdd, I lifted it and applied hot glue for a much stronger adhesion and added electric tape on top to avoid the possibility of the foam getting pierced. With a 2.5” hdd it’s not much of a concern as the power stays by the side but with a 3.5” hdd (not my use case) I wanted the extra insulation.I can’t speak to longevity but for now it does what it is supposed to well.

This SATA Female to 40 pin Male 3.5 inch IDE Adapter worked well in my Desktop PC with an ASUS AM2 motherboard. No negative issues to report. Overall board assembly good. Solder joints good. Passed my 3 usage tests with a SATA Hard Drive (BIOS recognition, Partition program CD boot disk, Windows XP CD boot disk). I also tried this board in Master and Slave modes via the on-board jumper.. Both worked properly. My only recommendation for users of this adapter is *use care* when connecting or removing the IDE cable as board breakage is possible if you're not careful when handling it. And also check the on-board Jumper for correct setting for Master or Salve Mode.

Needed 4 Sata to IDE adapters that would work in a Master/Slave setup. Tried adapters from 2 other manufactures with no success. This product solved my problem. The ones I recieved came with insulating foam tape on the side facing the drive which is a nice touch.

I have an old Pentium computer that I wanted to load Windows 95 on and re-live the experience. Sadly my last IDE hard drive died and in searching for some new-old stock, I came across this adapter. It allowed me to repurpose one of SATA drives and connect it to the IDE port. I chose to use the smallest SATA drive I had (64 GB) however they all seemed to work with the only limitations being what the OS could handle. Using this adapter with and SSD HDD will give you a speed boost on your old hard drive as seek and read/write times are dropped. Very nice product.

Worked perfectly, I used it to set up an old air-gapped x86 machine (32bit), used the machine to run windows XP with have bunch of old recording software. Very simple around my machine, but every machine is different and depending on what drive you use may work or not work. READ THE MANUAL if you have trouble with installing a drive to a machine.