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Introduction
This SATA to IDE adaptor is designed to provide an easy solution for D.I.Y users for connecting any existing 3.5 IDE hard drives or 5.25 ATA / ATAPI devices to the new Serial ATA bus, an ideal interconnect device for multimedia application. This SATA to IDE adaptor is compliant with Serial ATA (Generation 1) Specification with peak data transfer rate up to 1.5Gb/s (150MB/s) on the SATA side and is compatible with Ultra ATA133 on the PATA side.
General Features
Standalone Parallel ATA (PATA) to Serial ATA (SATA) device bridge chipset Compliant with ATA/ATAPI-6 Specification Compatible with Ultra ATA133 Compliant with Serial ATA Specification Revision 1.0 Support peak data transfer rate up to 1.5Gb/s (150MB/s) Support Hot-Swap and Wake-Up Accommodate all existing 3.5 IDE hard drives or 5.25 ATA / ATAPI devices Driverless No driver required