Hi,
does anyone if you can get a SATA > IDE adaptor so that I can use my 160Gb Seagate SATA drive in an IDE external drive enclosure ?
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Hi,
does anyone if you can get a SATA > IDE adaptor so that I can use my 160Gb Seagate SATA drive in an IDE external drive enclosure ?
Well, I haven't seen any.
One thing concerns me. Most SATA drives are IDE drives with a chip that acts as a bridge, so if you slap a SATA>IDE converter on there you're going IDE>SATA>IDE, hehe.
Not entirely sure what you mean.
Why do you want a SATA to IDE adapter when the drive is a SATA drive?
You mean you want to sit it in a 5 inch (optical drive) bay instead of a IDE bay?
In that case yes you can buy a mounting device to place an IDE (three and a half whatever inch) device into a 5 inch bay.
No, he wants to put his SATA drive in an external drive enclosure. They tend to have a Firewire/USB interface, and on the inside an IDE connection, hence he needs a converter.
Thinking about it, if a converter did exist, would you be able to fit it all in?
My motherboard has a bracket for running SATA drives externally, maybe there is a solution that can make use of that?
Unfortunately the reason I want to do this is because I am getting a laptop and want to just use my current desktop hard drives in external enclosures. As I am sure you can guess, the laptop does not have SATA :)