I am building a new computer on a very low budget. Unfortunately all of my drives use ribbon cables rather than SATA, which all the new parts use. Is there such thing as a SATA/ribbon cable adapter?
If they are ATA-6 then they can do 100MB/s at most. ATA-3 then 33MB/s (these are revisions of ATA, does not comply if the devices can accommodate such speeds).
But either way, they need replaced by modern SATA III (no need to go to SATA II HDDs anymore) for the better revised designs and redundancy.
I do not have the money to buy all new drives (my optical disk drive is just fine, nothing wrong with it anyway). I was just hoping to save some money for the time being.
I do not have the money to buy all new drives (my optical disk drive is just fine, nothing wrong with it anyway). I was just hoping to save some money for the time being.
An 1TB 7200RPM Seagate Baraccuda DM003 only costs 60 USD. It is a 64MB cache drive (32MB X 2) and will be faster than any of your PATA drives just to say as well larger storage space.
I know you may not have the money, but the suggestion is there when you do, you will be glad on it.
Otherwords you need to get an PCIE X1 or maybe just an PCI IDE bus card till you can switch.
oh i see my motherboard is 3-4 years old and its got one. Some of us still make use of ide drives =/. I find my optical drive to be a waste of a sata port so i use an ide one instead.
oh i see my motherboard is 3-4 years old and its got one. Some of us still make use of ide drives =/. I find my optical drive to be a waste of a sata port so i use an ide one instead.
They were an uncommon additive until around 2010 when they just kind of stopped completely.
To name a few:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186078
http://www.amazon.com/IDE-SATA-Adapter/dp/B000RK89M4
These are reversible, they work ide to sata or sata to ide.
fm87!But either way, they need replaced by modern SATA III (no need to go to SATA II HDDs anymore) for the better revised designs and redundancy.
Technically it is common in most motherboards since most motherboards out there are probably that old.
fm87!An 1TB 7200RPM Seagate Baraccuda DM003 only costs 60 USD. It is a 64MB cache drive (32MB X 2) and will be faster than any of your PATA drives just to say as well larger storage space.
I know you may not have the money, but the suggestion is there when you do, you will be glad on it.
Otherwords you need to get an PCIE X1 or maybe just an PCI IDE bus card till you can switch.
oh i see my motherboard is 3-4 years old and its got one. Some of us still make use of ide drives =/. I find my optical drive to be a waste of a sata port so i use an ide one instead.
You and me are on the same boat then.
At least 86% of what I say is always correct.