I would strongly recommend you replace your current HD with a SSHD hybrid drive instead of adding the SSD in the optical drives PATA port. It would be the more cost effective solution. And given the age of your system, the wiser direction as well.
If you really had your heart on putting in the SSD, then you'll want to replace your current 3'5" drive with the 2.5" SSD and then get a 2.5" HD that fits the optical drive frame (if you still wanted deeper storage).
This is the ideal drive for you: Seagate 3.5" Desktop SSHD.
Sorry you went down this garden path ;-{
It's not so much it won't work, its not really a good idea (less than 1/2 the speed of the SATA port in your system). You'll end up loosing the benefits of a SSD.
You also may have an interface problem depending on the SSD you bought. You see, most SSD's today are fixed SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) it may not be able to run at the slower SATA speed the PATA to SATA unit is designed to support SATA II (3.0 Gb/s).
I would get a 3.5" to 2.5" frame and replace your HD for the SSD. Or, see if you can return what you bought so far. I would make the tech pay for the anything that you couldn't return.
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In general, you should always replace the optical drive with an HDD, and put the SSD in the HDD interface since it will allow the SSD to be faster.
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