IDE to SATA help

[crankypsp]

Hi, I need a little help on exactly what i should buy. my mothers pc is a bit old and the mb only has IDE. Every month or so im going to copy some files from a SATA drive to her hdd. I just need a little advice on exactly which converter i would need( from newegg preferably)). Ive read that there are some issues with some of them and i dont wanna end up buying something thats going to give me problems. the cheapest solution would be best prefferred. Thanks
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[tiraides]

The majority of us here don't use internal IDE-to-SATA or SATA-to-IDE adapters, so we can't really tell you which one is "best" for your needs. That said, virtually any external SATA-to-USB adapter (or SATA HDD enclosure) would work, even though they may be slower than the internal adapters.