Addonics includes loose pin power connector with SATA/IDE converter

Computer Forum Storage Devices
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Addonics sells a SATA-IDE converter

http://www.addonics.com/products/io/images/adsaide_web.gif

and they nicely include a 4 pin Y power connector.

I couldn’t get the power connectors to plug in because the pins were bent, and they nicely sent me a replacment.

But the replacement had the same problem, and I figured out the reason is actually that the wires in the connector are loose and wiggle easily out of alignment.

Here’s the male connector:
http://www.fluxsoft.com/images/male.jpg

and the female
http://www.fluxsoft.com/images/female.jpg

Addonics insists it is completely normal for these power connectors to have loose pins!

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Yeah…All mine are like that. You just have to get them in as far as you can and wiggle them in the rest. I’ve heard IDE-Sata converters promote corrupt data and are piles of junk.