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Title: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: squirrellydw on September 13, 2007, 08:52:23 am

Do they make a cable that allows me to use a newer SATA hard drive with an older mother board with IDE hard drive inputs or whatever the older hard drive interface is called.

Title: Re: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: Neilyboy on September 13, 2007, 08:57:11 am

Yeah
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812206001
or you can go SATA to USB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002
-Neil

Title: Re: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: Austin.Wolff on September 13, 2007, 09:04:04 am

Even inf you could, I don't see the point of buying a SATA drive to use it at IDE speeds.

Title: Re: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: severdhed on September 13, 2007, 09:22:25 am

maybe it is just a matter of he has a sata drive and doesnt want to buy a new one.

Title: Re: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: Green Giant on September 13, 2007, 09:46:32 am

A better option would be a sata pci card.  Then you could have the speed of sata on the computer you are using.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1431868&CatId=1455

Title: Re: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: XyloSesame on September 13, 2007, 09:52:04 am

Quote from: Green Giant on September 13, 2007, 09:46:32 am

A better option would be a sata pci card.  Then you could have the speed of sata on the computer you are using.

I highly recommend SATA PCI cards; I've put them in all of my older IDE machines and have never had a bit of trouble. You get the speed, convenience, and futureproofing (FWIW) of SATA in a non-SATA machine.

Title: Re: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: squirrellydw on September 14, 2007, 10:18:28 am

thanks I will go with the card

Title: Re: HD cable, SATA to IDE??
Post by: squirrellydw on September 21, 2007, 10:47:00 am

are all sata connectors the same?  I am looking for a PCI card with internal sata 2 connectors for cheap.  Will sata 150 work with a sata 2 HD and just run slower?

So this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16812206001

should work with this HD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822148151