is their an adapter to convert SATA to IDE for this so i can use my IDE drives?
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There are Sata to IDE adapters, but you will not be able to use it in this enclosure as it only fits SATA drives.
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Lisa, a better approach may be to just buy another dock for your IDE drives and this dock for your SATA drives. I don't know how many bays you have open, but I have a mini-tower and find having both is very convenient. Also, if your use of IDE is infrequent, there are several kits where you can convert IDE to USB and just plug your IDE drive in that way. Those kits are cheap too, $10-$15. I have this ICY DOCK you are looking at, and I love it as I do a lot of disk swapping. Good luck.
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Although there are SATA to IDE converters they would not work in this case. The bare drive slides into the unit into SATA connectors on the inside back of the unit. There is not enough physical room for converters. You are better off looking for an IDE mobile rack.
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No there is not.... you need to get one of the external decks, that will have what you are looking for
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Don't think so.You can purchase an external docking station for around $30.00 that will accept both sata and IDE drives. The one I have will COPY the IDE to the satadrive. Check Amazon ans ebay for different brands and prices.Hope this helps
1180512
No, there is no adapter that I'm aware of (I'm honestly not sure how one would fit in here). The only way to hook up an IDE drive would be to buy a separate IDE to USB adapter, which would plug into a USB port . These days, IDE hard drives are few and far between.
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IDE is a different interface than SATA. The transfer DID work for me with a Windows 7 upgrade, however.
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it depends on what motherboard you have. you should check if your motherboard has something called SATA connectors, which this drive uses. If your motherboard is older it might have something called and IDE connector and this drive would not work. The way you can tell is that an IDE connector is about 3 inches wide, while a SATA connector is maybe 1/2 inch wide. If you do have IDE, then find an older drive that supports the IDE connector
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No, the interface is different This one SATA. U have an IDE hdd (old school). So that being said look for an 3.5 IDE hard drive. i bought this one great product no issues: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004BU6ITW?cache=f26e78305da93118e7fc972f1c8c77ddπ=SX200_QL40#ref=mp_s_a_1_2&precache;=1
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Depends on computer. Go to profile on computer an it will list what it is. IDE is to old interface SATA in newer.
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This seems to require an SATA drive, so it won't work with the IDE drive that I had purchased.
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My unit came with a power adapter and works fine with both IDE and SATA devices. I am very pleased with it's performance. Some people leave them connected permanently but I do not do this.
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For ide hard drives the adapter will plug onto the hard drive and the sata cable will plug into the adapter.For sata drives the adapter will plug onto the hard drive and the ide cable will plug into the adapter. It is supposed to work with both drives.
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I don't use it for connect hard drive, but the voltage and ampers maybe working with it,, so there are another solution for connect hardrive. for example SATA/PATA/IDE Drive to USB Adapter Converter
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Yes. I am using the adapters both ways. I have 2 desktops and one I use a SATA to IDE adapter to run a CD/DVD/BD drive and on the other one I use a IDE to SATA adapter with a similar drive.
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If by IDE you mean drives with the wide connector with 2 rows of pins (40 in total) which take a ribbon cable, then you are correct - this will not work with those.
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just look for a molex drive power splitter for IDE. or if you are using a SATA drive there are ones for that. they are pretty common place. look on amazon .. i know micro-center has them i got one yesterday.
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No, this is a 1.8" drive bare board drive with no casing. It is meant to be installed in laptops that came with 1.8" drives to save space, why there is no casing on it. Also it is a uSATA type, so the connectors are different from regular SATA. An adapter is needed to convert to regular SATA.Converting to IDE I doubt it will work. If you still have IDE drives, I'd suggest saving your money and getting a whole new computer. Anything that uses IDE drives only would be too slow in CPU, etc. to benefit from an SSD.
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depends on the plug in part this has IDE 43 pins ,some have SATA connection which is like a usb plug, if yours has IDE connection then yes
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I would say no, becaues a machine old enough to have Win95 will have IDE connections and not the SATA required by the drive. A more detail explanation of the difference is explained here http://www.diffen.com/difference/IDE_vs_SATA
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The one shown here houses an IDE drive and it appears yours is an SATA The one in the link below will work.2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Aluminum External SATA Hard Drive Enclosure (Silver)
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This drive has a SATA interface, I don't know if you might be able to get an adapter.