Syba SATA/IDE Adapter, Connect IDE Devices to SATA Port on Motherboard

Pros: Similar to other reviews. Except, my 4 units each came with an inexpensive SATA cable (with no locking clip). Nothing on Newegg or SYBA's site states they do. In-fact SYBA's site states the kit version does. My non-kit version did include a red Sata cable. There are other "kit" model numbers that include sata cable and 3.5"/5.25" style power adapter, but at this time Newegg doesn't offer them. I bought extra Sata cables that are now spares. I don't know if all Newegg's stock has Sata cables. Buy an extra cable if you don't feel like taking a chance.

Cons: Manual states drive needs to be set to Master. IDE standard was sloppy when introduced. So drive manufacturers have all sorts of compatability issues. Experiance revealed some drives need Slave or Cable Select. Some drives have extra jumpers like Single Drive or Compatability Mode. Have had problems with really fast motherboards booting faster than the IDE drive would spinup w/this adapter. Since nearly all SATA drives are designed to be alive and talking quickly the motherboard BIOS expects SATA devices to be available at the time POST (Power On Self Test) boot sequence occurs. Since this device connects to IDE drives, they may not be alive and talking that quickly. If you have hanging issues in POST delaying the SATA detection for a few seconds. Turning off quick boot in the BIOS so the system counts the RAM. Motherboard's BIOSes are programmed to wait until IDE devices are ready before proceeding with POST. Fully SATA drives may report drive specs to POST before completely spun up.

Overall Review: Make sure the IDE connector is centered on the pins. The connector housing on nearly all drives are wide enough to plug a standard IDE cable into them. The SYBA adapter's connector is much narrower than an IDE cable. If you hold an IDE cable end up to the adapter's IDE connector they are the same height but different in width by about 0.25". There is an alignment notch on most cables that is not on the SYBA IDE connector. Fortunately they have the proper pin blanked out so it should only go on with the pins lined up.

Pros: It works, its smaller than I expected it to be, worked seamlessly in two systems, no BIOS changes and has its own activity light.

Cons: Needs the floppy power connector (I knew that before I bought it), I never use the floppy drive anyway. Will just make a power adapter from an old power supply if I have to.

Overall Review: Interestingly my Maxtor 160gb HD needed to be set to "cable select" for it to work, even though the manual says not to. So if you get this and it doesn't work keep trying different settings.

Pros: Small and cheap.

Cons: I understood from the description and the package that it came with a power connector. It didn't, forcing me to scrounge for one. Rather annoying.

Overall Review: I didn't have the loose connector problems that some have had, but I haven't tried it out yet as I'm still getting set up. Remember that it WON'T speed up an ATA drive, it only makes it work on a SATA interface. Still cheaper than replacing the old ATA one though.

Pros: This product has been great in my pc,actually i am ordering 2 more to go with the 2 i bought just a little over a yr ago. After reading the reviews and not seeing anything good about this product i decided to give my input as well. The product has worked perfect for me with ABSOLUTLY NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER,i dont have problems with the loose connection or loosing contact while i am doing something such as installs,updates or copying file to 1 of my 6 harddrives or burning to either of my 2 burners. Another note is that this product wasnt designed to change your drives/disks to sata(thats impossible anyways). All it was supposed to do is provide a way for users to use ata harddrives and such on sata equipped motherboards,the harddrives DO NOT go any faster than they were designed to by using this product,it is still an ata drive no matter what adaptor you use. So in light of what it was designed to do i have to say it works flawlessly for me.

Cons: ABSOLUTELY NONE.

Overall Review: asus m2n32 SLI-deluxe,amd X2 x64 4.8gh,4gb ram,1960 gb harddisk space(6 hdrives),benq dvd player,verbatim cd r/rw,lg dvd r/rw+/-,100mb zipdrive,floppy controller,pci ata133 adaptor,dual nvidia 8800gt video cards and much,much more,all housed in a thermaltake X series full tower,with koolance liquid cooling system(exos i think,ive had it awhile)!!currently dual booting vista x64 and xp x64 and win7 x64(beta testing).

Pros: I just purchased 3 additional units to convert IDE drives to SATA. I have been running two Maxtor 160GB IDE drives with Syba IDE-To-SATA converters in a striped RAID array for 3 years on the same computer. Not a single problem. I'm using an Asus Deluxe model motherboard which has the Nforce 4 SATA controller.

Cons: None

Overall Review: ATA 133 drives can be converted at minimal cost to SATA 150

Pros: Works really great. Fast detection in BIOS and fast transfer.

Cons: The sockets location need to be redesign. You need to twist a little bit your SATA cable (L-shape female socket) so it doesn't tangle with the (floopy) power cable. It doesn't come with the cables so you might want to get the sata cable and 4-pin split power cable (1 CDROM size and 1 floppy size)

Overall Review: I was worried that this product won't work when i bought it. After couple experiments, it works really great for my 2 different brand HDDs. For the HDD that has "single" and "master" jumper, set the jumper to SINGLE instead of master. For the HDD which doesn't have single jumper, set the jumper to MASTER. Don't forget to turn on the SATA controller ON (the one that you use) in BIOS. The BIOS and windows system should detect it fast otherwise there is incorrect setting.

Pros: Small, Simple, Does the job PERFECTLY. properly handles the temp/smart readings from the ide drives.

Cons: Most people don't understand the need to properly setup the bios to use these. Requires extra power in addition to the hdd's power. (2 power plugs for 1 hdd)

Overall Review: Make sure you have "enhanced mode" enabled for "p-ata + s-ata" in the bios IDE/sata options! Also, not because of these adapters, just a side effect of having a single hdd on each channel insteead of 2 on 1 ide, Takes about 60 seconds to copy 1.2gb's(one "sata" drive to the next), where as it used to take 3-5 with both of the hdd's being on the same ide cable.

Pros: Works great on my DVD burner, works on my 80GB Maxtor hard drive, high speed transfers

Cons: locks up the computer when I write data to my 200GB Maxtor hard drive - an issue with drive capacity? For awhile I thought my drive was going bad, but I removed the adapter and it works just fine

Overall Review: Great when it works, but it has issues with some drives