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Rating: 
Summary: More expensive than a restocking fee
Review: If you accidentally order a Serial ATA hard drive when you meant to order an IDE hard drive, this card will let you use your Serial ATA drive in an IDE connector. This is probably a more expensive solution than returning the Serial ATA drive and paying shipping and a restocking fee, but it's cheaper than upgrading your motherboard to one with a Serial ATA connector, plus someday you might have a system with Serial ATA built-in and get to use the hard disk you bought by mistake for its intended purpose.I was disappointed that this card does not expose both a Serial ATA and an IDE connector - once you plug this in you lose the use of the IDE connector. For some reason I thought this card had an IDE passthrough, but I was wrong.
Rating:
Summary: More expensive than a restocking fee
Review: If you accidentally order a Serial ATA hard drive when you meant to order an IDE hard drive, this card will let you use your Serial ATA drive in an IDE connector. This is probably a more expensive solution than returning the Serial ATA drive and paying shipping and a restocking fee, but it's cheaper than upgrading your motherboard to one with a Serial ATA connector, plus someday you might have a system with Serial ATA built-in and get to use the hard disk you bought by mistake for its intended purpose. I was disappointed that this card does not expose both a Serial ATA and an IDE connector - once you plug this in you lose the use of the IDE connector. For some reason I thought this card had an IDE passthrough, but I was wrong.
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