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Originally Posted by [AfZ]PiMp J
are these still available?
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Originally Posted by willPower
Hey Phoenix,
Do you still have those adapters? I'm definitely interested in a set or two, so hit me up when you get a chance.
Thanks!
Will
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I been thinking about how to answer this question to the two of you for several days now. I hope this answers things for you (and anyone else) on this subject. People can get upset at how I pass infomation etc, but at least I am honest and don't sugar coat everything.
This whole SATA conversion process reminds me a lot of the old children's fable about the little hen and her baby chicks making bread. She asked for help through the whole wheat growing process etc and so forth, but nobody wanted to contribute, but they were all ready to eat the bread when it was done.
At the beginning, I took on this project because people had asked for it here on the forum. Being the guy who was most likely to make this work (from here on the forum), I took it on in hopes of advancing things for the Snap servers and helping people out.
I spent a huge amount of time on this project. If I wasn't retired, this project would have taken a very very long time to complete. It also took substantial amounts of funds that I just flat out can't really afford to spend, and risk to my own equipments testing things on them. In other words, this was not just something that was wham bam thank you ma'am all done easily. It is easy to do now, but not from the start.
During the project, I got very little encouragement or assistance. Some, but not much. Some of you might remember my frustration posts on this subject here and there in different message threads. Do you remember the responses I got also?
I pretty much shit-canned the project due to the overwhelming negative feeling it was giving me, even though it was near completion. I had already made it work for my own use, but not in a way that others could do it also at that point.
Then 2 good friends asked me to complete the project for them. Since they are good friends, I completed it for them.
Due to the costs and ability to make them cheaper in quantity, that and having to set up a press for the cutting and the other mods needing to be done, it was far better to do them assembly line, and cheaper.
I decided to post here since I completed the project and offer them if someone wanted to get in on it while I was doing a batch. Guess what I got? I got mostly crickets.... Only 3 people asked me about it and 1 of them backed out after I had bought his adapters. In other words, as usual, the response here on the forum was very underwhelming and one guy even stiffing me.
So please excuse me if I am a little bitter on this subject and less than forthcoming easily. I am also very aware that some people would like to get them to reverse engineer it all and go make profits on my work. Doesn't seem very fair to me after my risks, time, and money...