IDE to SATA upgrade - HELP PLEASE!!

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lukeshep

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Hi guys,

I'm upgrading my (admittedly quite old) computer with new RAM and harddrive.

The old hd was an IBM Deskstar, which is IDE and I really want to upgrade this to a SATA drive.

I'm not sure whether my motherboard has any slots for a SATA drive (I'm not very good with the internals of computers). I was wodnering whether there was any way to get round this without buying a whole new motherboard - is there some kind of adapter? If so, do they sort out the power supply issues and are they any good or would it be best just to replace the motherboard??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.
 
If you have a old board without Sata. You could get a PCI card with Sata connectors and use a Sata power connector adaptor.

But really the performance difference between the two and the trouble, I would just get a IDE harddrive.
 
Yup, a more simple solution is to just get an IDE hard drive. There's an adapter to plug right behind the SATA hard drive to convert it to IDE, but it's big and bulky. Not to mention, you'll have to convert the SATA power to IDE also.
 
The SATA to IDE adapters really suck...even the PCI ones are really bad.

Look @ your motherboard...sata will look like this

sata.jpg



If your only IDE then I would suggest saving and upgrade your PC. Making a Dual-Core system is really cheap now a days.

The adapters for this always have bad reviews from being faulty to shorting the drive out...not worth the risk or money imo.
 
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Cheers guys - I think I'm gonna get a reasonably cheap IDE drive, 2 gig of cheap ram and make do with it until i can save for a completely new system.

I'll probably be back on here in the near future asking for your advice on that, so thanks for your help with this one!!

Happy new year everyone.
 
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