Here is a bi-directional IDE/SATA unit for $7.50:<br><a href="http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/ide-to-sata-bidirectional-convertor/">http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/ide-to-sata-bidirectional-convertor/</a><br>
A couple people I know have bought these and said they work pretty good.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:23 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I forgot about the connectors. I hope they work better than many of the serial-USB converters.<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Jim Ockers" <<a href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net" target="_blank">ockers@ockers.net</a>><br>To: "CLUE technical discussion" <<a href="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue-tech@cluedenver.org</a>><br>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 7:21:36 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain<br>Subject: Re: [clue-tech] SATA vs. "IDE"?<br><br>Bummer about the drive. If your M/B has no SATA connectors then it is <br>easiest to just buy an IDE drive. However there are IDE to SATA <br>
adapters, and SATA to IDE adapters, and they cost $20 to $50 probably. <br>There are some issues with these but for basic disk functionality they <br>work OK. You probably won't notice the issues under normal use.<br>
<br>Hope this helps,<br>Jim<br><br>Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:<br>> 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.<br>
><br>> Thank you.<br>><br>> Adrian<br>><br>> -- <br>> Adrian Nagle ~ <a href="mailto:anagle@naglenet.org" target="_blank">anagle@naglenet.org</a> ~ <a href="http://www.naglenet.org/" target="_blank">http://www.naglenet.org/</a><br>
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