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Posted at 8:20 AM on Wednesday 12/30/09 by
Ben
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Meritline has the IDE to SATA or SATA to IDE Adapter for $5 - $2 off with coupon code MLC400379123040AL1 [1500 uses] = $3 with free shipping. Compliant with serial ATA specification and converts serial ATA to parallel ATA and vice versa.
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    justmythoughts - Posted 8:32 am PST 12/30/09 (814 Posts)  Report Spam

    Snagged one. Just what I needed to re-use a large ide drive in a new build.

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    Maestro - Posted 8:48 am PST 12/30/09 (171 Posts)  Report Spam

    I bought a couple of these from Meritline a few months ago. Shipped from Hong Kong and took a long time. They're very cheaply made Chinese junk. There was some weird sticky residue all over the electronics from manufacturing. The tiny instructions sheet was a bad Chinese-English translation and not of any real use. Even the SATA cable was cheap. The plastic around the connector breaks at the slightest pressure leaving a loose cable that doesn't make good connection. Never got them to work and threw everything away.

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    faypier208 - Posted 9:15 am PST 12/30/09 (138 Posts)  Report Spam

    what #2 said is true, I bought two couple months back and it's totally junk, not working at all, sticky residue all over the place, it's a scam !! DON"T BUY the junk !

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    mattb123 - Posted 9:19 am PST 12/30/09 (1250 Posts)  Report Spam

    I had a similar experience with a CF-IDE adapter from them. Well, it worked for a few hours and then stopped. At least it wasn't expensive.

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    nashvilleNINJA - Posted 11:05 am PST 12/30/09 (729 Posts)  Report Spam

    if the product worked, would the ide to sata adapter make the old drive as fast or almost as fast as a regular sata HD?

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    grumpydog - Posted 12:17 pm PST 12/30/09 (1649 Posts)  Report Spam

    #5 I doubt it.

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    loadednightrain1 - Posted 12:30 pm PST 12/30/09 (295 Posts)  Report Spam

    was gonna bite, n/m

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    mopwop - Posted 12:54 pm PST 12/30/09 (1 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have used this for a while and it has worked great for me. Maybe they are from different sources?

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    RKLE - Posted 9:53 pm PST 12/30/09 (9134 Posts)  Report Spam

    These guys never offer free shipping.

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    dtsmatt - Posted 1:08 pm PST 01/4/10 (401 Posts)  Report Spam

    coupon gone, price up, too bad. I was gonna get this.

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