<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I forgot about the connectors. I hope they work better than many of the serial-USB converters.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Jim Ockers" <ockers@ockers.net><br>To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech@cluedenver.org><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 ~ anagle@naglenet.org ~ http://www.naglenet.org/<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> clue-tech mailing list<br>> clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>> http://www.cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br>> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue-tech mailing list<br>clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>http://www.cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br></div></body></html>