MultibaoPATA IDE to SATA Interface Adapter Converter, Serial ATA SATA to Parallel ATA PATA/IDE Hard Drive for 3.5"/2.5" Hard Drive HDD DVD - Plug And Play

Ideal for a Hard drive swap out to an SSD on an old iMac G4, works well in my 800 MHz model

I was sceptical about this product but I wanted to fit a modern SATA optical drive to a 2001 ASUS motherboard. IDE optical drives are now so flaky with age. I have a brand new DVD Writer and placed the converter on it and plugged it in. Bios recognised it instantly in Windows 98 but as yet I have not tried it in DOS so I am not sure weather the cd drivers will recognise it. However I can’t see that it will be an issue. I haven’t tried it with a hard disk but to be honest there seems little point because of the range of potential incompatibility issues between an old bios and a modern hard disk. In Windows 98 both data disks and music disks read without issue. So I am giving this product a thumbs up from a retro PC gamer 👍🏻

Did work with my drives, but my equipment didn't work with it, multi track hard disk recorder. Had to use a more expensive one.

It was great but the 4 power pins for my use case should of been on the other side if it had fitted correctly full 5 stars it was durable and easy to use just watch out for compatibility.

Imaged original IDE drive using Macrum Reflect 8 Free edition, then installed an SSD in it’s place. Although it did recognise the SSD drive in the BIOS, Windows 98 wouldn’t boot and it was hanging at a blank black screen. However, when I turned off the PCI IDE Bus Master from the motherboard BIOS, the SSD drive now boots into Windows 98 correctly.

my computer failed to recognise the drive. The drive is fine becasue I checked it with an external case

I bought this to upgrade an old Power Mac G4 MDD that I picked up a few years ago. The original IDE hard drive in it was dated 2001(!) - still working fine but I wouldn't want to store anything important on there - not that I would be anyway...Installation was very easy. I used a spare 120Gb Sata SSD I had lying around and dropped it in as drive 0 on the secondary IDE connection and it was picked up straight away. I cloned the original drive with Super Duper, removed the old drive and put the SSD on the primary connection - all working fine and a little bit of a speed bump.The orientation of the IDE and molex power connectors may be an issue if you don't have much wiggle room in your computer's case. Plus bare in mind there's no way to select master/slave on the board so depending on your use case this might cause you an issue.For me - this has worked perfectly and I intend to purchase another to upgrade a B&W G3 next. Why? Why not!/Andy

does the job