SATA to IDE converters for SATA HD

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Sprout

Hi

I want to connect a SATA hard drive to an older IDE motherboard.
Anyone know where I can get a aconverter?

I've seen plenty which convert IDE drives to SATA, but not the other
way round.
 
Sprout said:
Hi

I want to connect a SATA hard drive to an older IDE motherboard.
Anyone know where I can get a aconverter?

I've seen plenty which convert IDE drives to SATA, but not the other
way round.
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Seems like a waste to put a modern drive on an obsolete machine but if you
feel that you must, why not just buy a cheap PCI SATA controller card and
forget about the IDE controller on the MB?
 
John McGaw said:
Seems like a waste to put a modern drive on an obsolete machine but if you
feel that you must, why not just buy a cheap PCI SATA controller card and
forget about the IDE controller on the MB?
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Good call on the card, but wouldn't it be a bigger waste to buy an old PATA
drive that you wouldn't be able to make use of on your next PC?
 
Noozer said:
Good call on the card, but wouldn't it be a bigger waste to buy an old PATA
drive that you wouldn't be able to make use of on your next PC?
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Possibly. Depends on how long the machine is meant to last, how often you
shuffle all your components around making new machines, what sort of price
you get on a PATA, how much an interface card costs, what sort of
performance you need, and what sort of drives are already sitting around.
I'd be more inclined to extract a spare PATA from one of my older machines
to use with an old MB and use the money saved toward a bigger and better
SATA drive for a machine that already has the interface but that's just me
and maybe the OP doesn't have a junk box to fall back on.
 
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