The two-way SATA / IDE converter / adapter PATA2SATA3 allows you to connect Serial ATA disks to old generation IDE ports or IDE disks to the port of a SATA motherboard. Economical solution to upgrade existing IDE systems and use optical disks or SATA hard disks, the SATA / IDE adapter eliminates the need to purchase a controller card and allows you to keep an expansion slot free. In addition to installing SATA hard drives, the adapter allows you to connect older generation IDE hard drives to a modern SATA motherboard, offering the ability to recover old files stored on previous systems.