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SATA Drive on a PC which has IDE/EIDE?

gok · 2009-02-10 22:32:23

Hi, A pretty basic question - I'd like to upgrade the internal hard disk on my HP desktop - its currently a 40GB IDE disk. My question: can I get a SATA type drive to work here or do I need some form of conversion cable? Thx :)

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10-02-2009 11:32pm

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gok

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Hi,
A pretty basic question - I'd like to upgrade the internal hard disk on my HP desktop - its currently a 40GB IDE disk. My question: can I get a SATA type drive to work here or do I need some form of conversion cable?

Thx

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#2 10-02-2009 11:37pm
AlmightyCushion

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You'll probably need a 4 pin molex to sata cable for power. For data a pci sata card should do the job. I haven't seen any ide to sata data cables about.

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#3 11-02-2009 1:25pm
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Another option would be a SATA - USB2 adaptor.......

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#4 11-02-2009 9:00pm
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sata to usb means you only get the speed of USB which is less than that of SATA

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#5 12-02-2009 1:54am
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Something like this will work:

http://www.misco.ie/productinformation/~138613~WW~/IDE%20to%20SATA%20Drive%20Motherboard%20Adapter.htm

You can find cheaper if you search sites for sata to ata/pata connector.

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