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From: Daniel Prince on 2 Apr 2010 08:14
Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:

>what I did recently was that I converted two of those old
>IDE drives into SATA drives using an IDE-to-SATA converter board that
>fits right onto the back of the drives themselves.

What brand(s) of converters did you use? Did you try any of them on
optical drives?

I am having problems with my IDE cables AGAIN. I would like to get
rid of all of them.
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From: Yousuf Khan on 2 Apr 2010 11:58
Daniel Prince wrote:
> Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> what I did recently was that I converted two of those old
>> IDE drives into SATA drives using an IDE-to-SATA converter board that
>> fits right onto the back of the drives themselves.
>
> What brand(s) of converters did you use? Did you try any of them on
> optical drives?

No specific brand, just bought some generic stuff off of Ebay. They are
still working great. In fact, the drive that was showing spin retry
problems has been upgraded in HD Sentinel's health ratings from 40% all
of the way upto 76% now.

I didn't try them on optical drives, just hard drives. I don't
anticipate that there would be any special issues with optical drives
though. I'm actually still running all of my optical drives off of IDE
cables though.

> I am having problems with my IDE cables AGAIN. I would like to get
> rid of all of them.

It's probably a good idea. The units cost less than $10 each (actually
usually you'll find them under $5 including shipping), so even if they
don't fix your problem, it's not a huge expense. Just make sure you get
the right type, some are for SATA devices to IDE cable, whereas others
are for IDE devices to SATA cable.

Yousuf Khan
From: Rod Speed on 2 Apr 2010 13:06
Yousuf Khan wrote
> Daniel Prince wrote
>> Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote

>>> what I did recently was that I converted two of those old
>>> IDE drives into SATA drives using an IDE-to-SATA converter board that fits right onto the back of the drives
>>> themselves.

>> What brand(s) of converters did you use? Did you try any of them on optical drives?

> No specific brand, just bought some generic stuff off of Ebay. They are still working great. In fact, the drive that
> was showing spin retry problems has been upgraded in HD Sentinel's health ratings from 40% all of the way upto 76%
> now.

> I didn't try them on optical drives, just hard drives. I don't
> anticipate that there would be any special issues with optical drives though. I'm actually still running all of my
> optical drives off of IDE cables though.

>> I am having problems with my IDE cables AGAIN. I would like to get rid of all of them.
>
> It's probably a good idea. The units cost less than $10 each (actually
> usually you'll find them under $5 including shipping), so even if they
> don't fix your problem, it's not a huge expense. Just make sure you
> get the right type, some are for SATA devices to IDE cable, whereas
> others are for IDE devices to SATA cable.

And some can be used either way.


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