Getting Sata drive into an old Shuttle.

[ElectroBlaster]

I have a few old Shuttles and some spare 500gb sata drives that could do with being used:

SN45GV2
SS51G
SN41G

All of these do not have sata ports. I could go with a sata card but that would mean the removal of the soundcards which I do not want to do. So I have had a quick nose around on fleabay and found something that will allow a sata drive to adapt onto the ide port. Has anyone used these adaptors and do they work with no issues? Just to clear up this is not pata to sata, I want to go the other way - sata to pata.

Thx

 

[ElectroBlaster]

I know the performance wont be great but as long as it works at ata100 it should be ok. Is there anything I should avoid? cheap ones from fleabay or does it not matter? I have seen some at a local electronics/radio type shop everyone has heard of for £9.99. Just wondering if the quality would be better or not?

 

[ElectroBlaster]

Excellent

I shall grab one asap. Im going to give the sn45g a dust off, fit a new psu and a bigger drive. Just gotta hope the problems with it are psu related or it will be a waste of time