ide to sata converter

newguy5

newguy5

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i've been looking on newegg and can't find what i'm looking for. can someone direct me to what i'm looking for to use my ide hard drives by connecting them through a converter and then into the mobo's sata ports? thanks.
 
yeah i like that much better. thanks. question: if i am building a new computer, i had planned to just use my old two hard drives that are IDE, but so is my cd drive. looking at this item you posted, i think i would run the HDs to the actual motherboard's single IDE connection, and then with this card i could run the cd and dvd drives. but, if i am going to boot this new computer up and immediately reinstall windows on my hard drive without being able to install the software for this card, will my cd drive be recognized going through this card? if it won't be recognized without the software being installed, is there anyway for me to make this work? does that question even make sense?
 
anyone? bueller?

the other option is i could just buy a SATA CDROM and hook the hard drive up through the mobo's IDE slot, and then i can deal with hooking up the DVD player through the IDE card slot you pointed out once i get windows installed, huh?
 
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You might be better off with the drives hooked to the card... I think that RAID controllers only work with hard drives.
 
I've been going through an A+ certification book, and for some reason, I recall reading that PCI to IDE cards only worked with hard drives. Maybe it was just RAID cards, I'm not sure.
 
Well many years ago when we upgraded our old Compaq(Pentium 75MHz :P) from a 4x CD-ROM to an 8x, the drive came with an ISA to IDE converter.

Unfortunetly, I can't think of any time I've tried this with more recent drives, but I can't see it being much different...
 
The_Other_One said:
Well many years ago when we upgraded our old Compaq(Pentium 75MHz :P) from a 4x CD-ROM to an 8x, the drive came with an ISA to IDE converter.

Unfortunetly, I can't think of any time I've tried this with more recent drives, but I can't see it being much different...
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would it just be better to get a sata hard drive? it's just that i have a perfectly good IDE drive that's still a great drive. i'd hate it to go to waste.
 
Most SATA drives are slightly faster, but I see no reason to ditch the old one... I'm pretty sure running a controller card of some form would be just fine.
 
Why would you want a converter? It wouldnt make it any faster. Id say if you want a faster hard-drive, buy a new one.

From my experience, going from PATA to SATA, i noticed the difference. My SATA is much faster, my old PATA HDD was a 7,200rpm and my SATA is also 7,200rpm. That and the cables are MUCH smaller, now i just need a SATA DVD drive.
 
Dual_Corex2 said:
Why would you want a converter? It wouldnt make it any faster. Id say if you want a faster hard-drive, buy a new one.

From my experience, going from PATA to SATA, i noticed the difference. My SATA is much faster, my old PATA HDD was a 7,200rpm and my SATA is also 7,200rpm. That and the cables are MUCH smaller, now i just need a SATA DVD drive.
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i don't care about the speed between the two; i'm sure they're comparable. i would just like to make sure i can build a new computer with a hard drive and cd drive both with an IDE interface and be able to run that IDE-PCI card and it detect my hard drive without me having windows installed. otherwise, if i turn my computer on and the card doesn't work, i'm going to be stuck with one IDE slot and to install windows we all know a cd drive and a hard drive are necessary simultaneously.
 
newguy5 said:
i don't care about the speed between the two; i'm sure they're comparable. i would just like to make sure i can build a new computer with a hard drive and cd drive both with an IDE interface and be able to run that IDE-PCI card and it detect my hard drive without me having windows installed. otherwise, if i turn my computer on and the card doesn't work, i'm going to be stuck with one IDE slot and to install windows we all know a cd drive and a hard drive are necessary simultaneously.
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Im very confused at what your saying. Each IDE cable should contain at least 3 connectors, 1 goes to the mobo and 2 go to the drives. Is that not enough?
 
Dual_Corex2 said:
Im very confused at what your saying. Each IDE cable should contain at least 3 connectors, 1 goes to the mobo and 2 go to the drives. Is that not enough?
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so wait. you can use one IDE cable and run one connector into the hard drive and one into the cd drive? i don't think that's right, is it?
 
does anyone know if you can use ONE SINGLE IDE cable and hook up your HD on the primary and then a CD drive on the secondary?
 
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