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IDE to SATA Converter

  • 17-11-2007 7:19pm
    #1
    vengeance52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭


    Hey All,

    Well i bought myself a new 500gig hard drive for my PC. Its a Dell Pc that i got a few months ago with a 160gig SATA HD already in it. But when i went to put the new SATA HD in as a secondary, realised that i had only one SATA connection on the motherboard.

    So was wondering do these converters work, or a mate said that i can get a PCI adapter card that can connect the HD.

    Whats the best option.


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  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    If you have a SATA HD to put in to a SATA PC then you need a SATA spliter/expander, no?

    http://www.satacables.com/15-pin-sata-power-y-cable-2.jpg

    Mike.


  • #3
    vengeance52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭vengeance52


    mike65 wrote: »
    If you have a SATA HD to put in to a SATA PC then you need a SATA spliter/expander, no?

    http://www.satacables.com/15-pin-sata-power-y-cable-2.jpg

    Mike.

    That will only work for power cables AFAIK


  • #4
    fatal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭fatal


    you can get them at www.dealextreme.com


  • #5
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    vengeance52 wrote: »
    So was wondering do these converters work,

    That converter is for connecting an IDE disk to an SATA controller, not what you're looking for.

    Are you sure only have one SATA port on the motherboard? That's pretty shitty, even for Dell.

    You could get an SATA PCI card, eBay, online shops, or even PC World sell them fairly cheap. This would be better than a converter as you'll be limiting the speed of the drive to PATA speeds, if it even works at all.

    AFAIK you can only connect one drive to any SATA controller, so any kind of splitter cable won't work either.


  • #6
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    jor el wrote: »
    You could get an SATA PCI card, eBay, online shops, or even PC World sell them fairly cheap. This would be better than a converter as you'll be limiting the speed of the drive to PATA speeds, if it even works at all.
    Yep, you'll get them on any online retailer. Komplett Link

    These give you the option then if you ever want to add more SATA drives and it's a piece of hardware, not some dodgy bodge. My brother bought a connector to connect a laptop HDD to an IDE cable and while it kind of worked, it was so iffy to make it less than worthwhile.


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  • #7
    vengeance52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭vengeance52


    seamus wrote: »
    Yep, you'll get them on any online retailer. Komplett Link

    These give you the option then if you ever want to add more SATA drives and it's a piece of hardware, not some dodgy bodge. My brother bought a connector to connect a laptop HDD to an IDE cable and while it kind of worked, it was so iffy to make it less than worthwhile.

    is that link for connecting the SATA drive internally or externally? im looking for internal.


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