Need a SATA connection for a SATA III (6Gb/s) SSD. Old motherboard only has IDE. And I need to boot from the SSD. Will that work?
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That is for converting a IDE to Sata, you need what looks like a bunch of Pins coming out going to a female Sata. Like this URL here: Serial ATA SATA to Parallel ATA PATA/IDE Hard Drive HDD CD DVD-ROM Interface Convert Adapter
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I couldn't get it to work in it's intended direction, I don't think it'd work in the opposite one. But DVD drives are weird because they have slave jumpers and stuff so I couldn't speak to what would work.
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That is for converting a IDE to Sata, you need what looks like a bunch of Pins coming out going to a female Sata. Like this URL here: http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-DVD-ROM-Interface-Convert-Adapter/dp/B0089F7KWY/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1408827150&sr=1-5&keywords=convert+sata+hard+drive+to+IDE
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It is supposed to work. You need to have enough room in your case to plug it straight into the motherboard. (At least 2 inches above motherboard clear, maybe 3.) Then you will have to play with the two sata connectors to figure out which is which. Read the other reviews on here about plugging the IDE portion in correctly. It is VERY VERY VERY easy to plug in wrong.
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For me it didn't work at all. When I used the adapter it didn't show that anything connected. So to answer your question it would probably not work
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As Richard says, it is supposed to work but in my experience it does not even for SATA II. For SATA III, if it worked at all and that is very unlikely, it will be so slow, you might as well write the data by hand.
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Further to my previous answer, if you have SATA III, you are really going to have to bite the bullet and upgrade your motherboard to one that is compatible with SATA III. I just spent 2 months trying to do what you want and never found any satisfactory solution until I found a used MoBo on line that was compatible with SATA III. There are lots of them out there and the time you will save is worth the money you will spend.
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This item does not have IDE connection that connects to the motherboard. It has SATA and on-board USB support. The IDE connection is on the exterior of this device where you can connect a IDE peripheral to it (ex: HDD, Optical drive..etc).
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Good if the connection is sata sata 3 speed will be fully optimized.I believe you will have a good performace with sata 3.gratefulHerbert
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I'm not familiar with your motherboard. I do know I bought two of these SSD's and I won't have any computer with the old fahioned disc hard drive!I put one in my Dell laptop (simple operation) and the other is in my Dell 400 XPS gaming desktop (using the adapter that came with it). I see no warning that it will not fit certain computers or any reference to motherboards.
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Don't know because each PC has different motherboard and even if it has a mini SATA (msata) connector you'll need to find out if it will boot from that port. Seems like the newest PCs are much more likely to have an msata slot but even when it does, it may not be useable for installing and O.S. I got 2 of these SSDs and most of the PCs I tried it with won't boot from there so I couldn't load Windows and use the other drive for storage as I planned.
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Dear Edward, The Intel SSDSA1NW080G3 has a regular SATA interface. you are looking for any SATA to USB 3.0 adapter cable or enclosure. You will find so many different styles on Amazon but this Enclosure here is for SSDs with mSATA interface. Thank you
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You need a standard SATA cable, not E-SATA cable up to level 3.0. you only need to order one that's long enough for your installation.
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it depends on what motherboard you have. you should check if your motherboard has something called SATA connectors, which this drive uses. If your motherboard is older it might have something called and IDE connector and this drive would not work. The way you can tell is that an IDE connector is about 3 inches wide, while a SATA connector is maybe 1/2 inch wide. If you do have IDE, then find an older drive that supports the IDE connector
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Any ssd should fin on the extra Sata 3 Bay, I'm sure the 840 from Samsung and the 530 from Intel fit for sure, just check is a fairly new ssd.
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It should work. If your goal is a faster boot time, SATA connection is better and you save some money. Get a lager SSD since it is faster than the smaller ones, at least 250 GB. Good luck.
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hi, just to clarify, this board has 2 sata III connections which should work with any drive that is compatible with the sata standard. ssd or hdd even a bluray drive. make sure you have the black sata power connectors from power supply too.
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Windows OS doesn't come with Motherboard. You can use your old hard drive but it might not Boot Because it will have a different master boot record, you will better off if you format that drive and install a clean system, to really see a difference in performance the motherboard has SATA III that supports 6GB/s so if your old hard drive is a SATAIII 6GB/s all fine and good but if not get a SATA III 6GB/S hard drive and use the old drive as a backup drive. For even faster performance and boot times get a SSD drive only thing about The SSD drives they cost a lot more per GB
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Most Sata connectors are backwards compatible. Just do a quick Google search.
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A regular 2.5 sata from an old laptop can work. But the ssd gives fast boot times
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This will work with either SATA or PATA drives, connectors are included for both. I hooked up an old 250 GB.PATA drive as new motherboard had no connectors for it.
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Hey gopheer, I believe all SATA cables are the same. Some of the new ones just have clips on them to keep them more secure. These don't have clips but they work just fine on my SATA III 6gb/sec. It should work fine for any SATA SSD. I don't personally have a SSD but I do use RAID-0 with SATA III.
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This plugs into your computer motherboard and your computer sees it as an IDE , SATA add on. It should work if the software can see it.I have found it for boot, after I said it wold not. Jus thave to know your motherboard.