SATA SSD HDD upgrade - Will this cable work?

[Blinx101]

Found a good cable at the right price. This is my 1st time doing this so want to ensure I don't get the wrong thing. 

 

Can anyone confirm this is the correct cable for the cable upgrade?

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285945357382?_skw=40-Pin+80-Wire+Ultra+ATA+2-Drive+Ribbon+Cable&itmmeta=01J8FJNTK17R82D1ZCRYBY15EN&hash=item4293abe446:g:yyEAAOSwn79miQYA&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKm7iQbBnl8fbU52nphsfcwuAH31NaccGcUbV80i4JT902JWYi6f4XgAav7Xybkxh1nxEmx63PsR38SqwGwENGp7DTRE3m4H6f0AhMfeEom2EU0mRVj9TTuwmtUl6uPhmVFuEO51x%2B0sBMynTSTKHBWvl%2BZnkE5B4LTOj9bZj1yh6D17INxfH4%2B1L%2FzOqeL5lXFnpHxCNDJ5%2FJmSQ8cYLaxhS1s0aUcQJ4SXR0CWhj88TrZ%2FSk%2FbFas%2FO8OF%2FJ36KPcBkilHyXkb2%2BXk3Cbv59RMRHmkOumHImHfqEueFkznUw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8qp1_LDZA

[nikeymikey]

Yes, that cable should work just fine.

It is shorter than the stock IDE cable though so you will have to be creative with the way you fold it to make it reach across to the HDD. 

[waqy]

Bought the same cable on Amazon for £2.99. Should be here on Wednesday/Thursday:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BJMB35E?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Also bought the following IDE to SATA adapter:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09GPGFLWB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

 

[phrunt]

Some of these shorter cables are a pain to get to reach, if I use them, I just disconnect the DVD Drive and set Cerbios to their modern No-DVD mode, how often do you use a DVD drive now anyway? Extremely rarely, then the cable has plenty of length and can be put in neater.

You may be lucky with your Sata adapter, you may not, some of them work great, I have a bunch I ordered a few years ago and they run fantastic, newer ones maybe missing a resister that you would likely need to add to make them work well.    There is plenty of information on this around and I'm sure the knowledgeable people here will be able to guide you to which resister you need.  You can just start on a low UMDA mode, and it should work fine, and work your way up until its troublesome, but they boot slowly without the resisters, and the photo of yours on the marketing shows it missing them.

I've had great success with the same Sata adapters, even running one at UMDA6 stable on my daughters Xbox but it seems that's not the norm, and results vary a lot.  I bought all mine at one time from one seller about 7 years ago and was clearly lucky to get really good ones. 

 

You need to add a resistor to R4 - 0603 - 101 and another one to RH1 - 0603 - 103 

Edited September 23 by phrunt

[waqy]

@phrunt Thanks for the suggestion.

It does seem a lot of headache just for a couple of resistors.

Do you have a link to one that would work straight off the bat?

Thanks

[phrunt]

12 minutes ago, waqy said:

@phrunt Thanks for the suggestion.

It does seem a lot of headache just for a couple of resistors.

Do you have a link to one that would work straight off the bat?

Thanks

I'm guessing by your links you're in UK? 

This Ebay listing has the best one you can buy, the Startech, you may find it cheaper if you hunt around I'm not sure.  They are the favoured adapter to use, only known issue is some 1.6's with Samsung DVD drives the DVD drive won't work, I know this from first hand experience too, but I just have the DVD unplugged.  They're the fastest most reliable adapter.

Edited September 23 by phrunt

[waqy]

1 minute ago, phrunt said:

I'm guessing by your links you're in UK? 

This Ebay listing has the best one you can buy, the Startech, you may find it cheaper if you hunt around I'm not sure.

Thank you.

I'll wait for the Amazon one to arrive tomorrow. If its missing the resistors then I'll just send it back and get that Startech you mentioned.

Is there only one version of that Startech, or will any do?

[phrunt]

There is a red and blue, the blues not so good, slower and can't be used with DVD drives at all.  You want the red one.

You can read about the various Sata adapters here

[nikeymikey]

22 minutes ago, waqy said:

Thank you.

I'll wait for the Amazon one to arrive tomorrow. If its missing the resistors then I'll just send it back and get that Startech you mentioned.

Is there only one version of that Startech, or will any do?

I would just go Startech from the start and be done with. It works straight outta the box and you can use UDMA6 for the fastest speeds in Cerbios.