IDE to SATA

Jimmy1983 · 23 Sep 2008 at 21:56

I want to get some data of a HDD, and want to use my old PC which hasnt got any SATA connectors on it, only IDE. Can you get a IDE to SATA connector of some sort?

PhillyDee · 23 Sep 2008 at 21:58

Buy an el cheapo sata card? Probably work out the same price.

kerrgreg · 23 Sep 2008 at 21:59

u can get them off ebay i never got mine to work though :S maybe it was user error? but the seller wasnt helpful :S

Jimmy1983 · 23 Sep 2008 at 22:01

PhillyDee said:
Buy an el cheapo sata card? Probably work out the same price.

Didnt know about these mate, how much am I looking at?

Duke · 23 Sep 2008 at 22:38

Bung the drive in a USB caddy.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...SATA/USB 2.0 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure - Blue

Jimmy1983 · 23 Sep 2008 at 22:44

How do these work, do you put your hdd in the caddie then connect the caddie to a USB port?

Does it fit into a of case, how do you power it?

fulcrumer · 23 Sep 2008 at 22:57

you can now get caddies which take either IDE and SATA drives via e sata or usb - they are self powered usually or take 2 USB connnections

Duke · 24 Sep 2008 at 08:14

Jimmy1983 said:
How do these work, do you put your hdd in the caddie then connect the caddie to a USB port?

Does it fit into a of case, how do you power it?

Yep just put the HD inside the caddy and connect the cables up inside to the back of it (i.e. power + sata leads). You then just plug in the usb cable from it to any PC or Laptop. It is an external enclosure so you can leave it sat on top of the PC plugged in, for example.

memyselfandi · 24 Sep 2008 at 08:27

Jimmy1983 said:
How do these work, do you put your hdd in the caddie then connect the caddie to a USB port?

Does it fit into a of case, how do you power it?

Basically yes.

Power wise if its a 3.5" disk then the caddie will have a separate power brick which needs to be plugged into a socket to power it. If it's for a 2.5" disk then it can either have a power brick, or use 1 or 2 USB ports and draw power from them instead.

Jimmy1983 · 24 Sep 2008 at 19:48

Thanks, are these drives also called hot swappable drives?

PhoenixUK · 24 Sep 2008 at 21:24

Any usb drive is hot swappable ;-)

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As others have said just buy an external enclousure for it and use it as storage/backup hdd.

Jimmy1983 · 24 Sep 2008 at 21:31

I thought hot swappable was so that you can have the HDD in a caddie inside you PC case and can just plug unplug while your PC is on.