You don't have to upgrade your PC mother board, memory or CPU in order to benefit from the speed and capacity boost of a SATA device!
This item is a converter solution for SATA (Serial ATA) storage devices (Hard Disks or internal optical drives). It has a standard 22-pin SATA port as an interface to a SATA drive. It accepts Parallel ATA (IDE) commands through 40-pin IDE connector from PC mother board, decodes PATA commands and converts to SATA commands. Responses from SATA drive are deciphered, processed and converted to a PATA protocol and sent to PC. This PATA to SATA adapter allows you to replace / install SATA drive to older computers which are without SATA ports.
Technical Details:
Plug and Play, No drivers needed
Serial ATA (SATA) compliance with Serial ATA 1.0
Allows SATA device to be fully compatible with standard IDE and power cables
Parallel ATA (PATA) Ultra ATA/133 parallel Interface
Supports: Windows 98 / NT 4.0 / 2000 / ME / XP, Linux
Connectors:
SATA: Signal + Power Female
PATA: IDE 2X20 pin male connector with molex power connector
Jumper setting: master/slave jumper (Default "ON" as master device). Used when two devices connected on one IDE cable.