if we find easily the IDE to SATA adapters, one rarely finds the opposite it's normal we go most often the idea in the old pc, to sata, more current but rarely otherwise, except to have him as my husband, tears mistakenly SATA connectors on the motherboard, and to up with one single port sata in state for two peripheral sata (dd and dvd), interim solution, put a recorder in ide. of course, it is still necessary to have another, or put in a 15/20 euros of player Occasionally, with risks of surprises, so how to put the sata drive that has at hand on an idea whose decision there is always at least one connector on the motherboard this connector does this very well, in all simplicity, and for the price, it does not worth to do without it will always be reusable to test a SATA drive in a planned external enclosure for IDE disks
