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

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.)

NFHK - Adattatore convertitore per scheda madre da disco SATA a IDE/PATA a 40 pinHo scelto questo adattatore, in luogo dello Startech rosso, per il prezzo ma soprattutto perché i pin del connettore sono ben protetti dalla cornice nera e si corrono molti meno rischi di piegarli/romperli.Se utilizzato come unico dispositivo sul canale IDE, occorre impostarlo su MASTER e funziona senza problemi.Se utilizzato in coppia, meglio impostarlo come SLAVE ed impostare su MASTER l’altro Hard Disk avendo cura di posizionare entrambi correttamente sul cavo a 80 PIN; in questo modo tutto fila liscio, verificato con un SSD Samsung 840 da 120GB e con un HITACHI meccanico da 2.5 e 500GB su scheda madre EPOX EP-P4MKI (chip VIA VT8235) e Pentium IV Northwood.Impostando l’altro Hard Disk su CABLE SELECT e/o impostando l’adattatore su MASTER, ho riscontrato grossi problemi: il BIOS e/o il Sistema non rilevano il disco con l’adattatore oppure la sola rilevazione da parte del BIOS richiede oltre 30 secondi.Verificate le saldature sul PCB, in caso di problemi potrebbe essere utile ripassarle in quanto alcune sono fatte male. Il chip IDE/SATA DOF B77CS0841, togliete l’adesivo QC Passed e valutate se incollarci un piccolo dissipatore utilizzando colla termica, personalmente non ho riscontrato nessun problema di eccessivo calore, il chip rimane fresco.Per il momento mi ritengo davvero molto soddisfatto, con poca spesa ho riciclato un SSD su un PC del’anno 2004.Pagato 10,99, acquistato da NFHK Electronics.

Der Adapter wird dafür genutzt, eine Sata SSD auf einem alten Pentium 2 board mit IDE Anschluss zu benutzen.Wurde problemlos erkannt, und Windows 98 liess sich einwandfrei darauf installieren, ohne irgendwelche zusätzlichen Treiber.Gewinnt keine Geschwindigkeitspreise, aber das war auch nicht das Ziel.Achtung: Das Board arbeitet anscheinend mit einer internen OS als Interface, denn wenn man die Platte von diese Adapter abzieht und diese versucht an einem anderen PC mit SATA Anschluss auszulesen findet man nur diverse nicht auslesbare Partitionen.Als Backup Methode daher eher nicht geeignet.

Très bien merci

Many of these modules don't - this one does! and it has master/slave jumper which is. important for some systems