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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 ?
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 ?
Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers
Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone
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.
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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.
To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.
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?
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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
Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers
Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone
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