3.5” ide hard drive needed but has to be less than 2.5 gig

yozzer2001 · 6 Jul 2021 at 12:53

Hi very old and big machine has broke in work (hard drive fault) we have got the data as an image but we now need to replace the old hard drive .
I need a 3.5” ide hard drive but has to be less than 2.5 gig .
Does anyone have one or could anyone source one for me.
Thanks in advance

EsaT · 6 Jul 2021 at 14:53

Long time since I've last checked availability of IDE/PATA drives of any capacity.
And doubt anyone has that tiny drives.

Compact Flash cards use PATA interface, so with cheap simple mechanical adapter those could be used.
But again finding that small good quality card might be hard.

Armageus · 6 Jul 2021 at 15:11

Have a look for "IDE DOM"
(DOM in this case meaning Disk on Module)

You can get 2GB modules that should plug straight in, and are designed for Industrial use cases.

yozzer2001 · 6 Jul 2021 at 15:29

Thank you both for your answers I will look into both.