[clue-tech] SATA vs. "IDE"?

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

I forgot about the connectors. I hope they work better than many of the serial-USB converters. 

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From: "Jim Ockers" <ockers at ockers.net> 
To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org> 
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 7:21:36 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] SATA vs. "IDE"? 

Bummer about the drive. If your M/B has no SATA connectors then it is 
easiest to just buy an IDE drive. However there are IDE to SATA 
adapters, and SATA to IDE adapters, and they cost $20 to $50 probably. 
There are some issues with these but for basic disk functionality they 
work OK. You probably won't notice the issues under normal use. 

Hope this helps, 
Jim 

Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote: 
> My server hard drive just crashed and is making banging sounds. I want to pick up a new one today. Is Best Buy typically the best place to get a inexpensive drive? I'm looking online and I see many SATA drives. Is it true that I can't plug a SATA drive into my old "IDE" motherboard (the tape connectors). Do I just look for "IDE" drives? There doesn't seem to be much selection. 
> 
> Thank you. 
> 
> Adrian 
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