IDE hard drives used in most PCs are essentially obsolete and should be replaced with SATA (Serial ATA) drives in new shipments of PCs. For a systems builder, this situation presents a great ...

StarTech.com's UNIDUPDOCK Hard Drive Duplicator Docking Station can be used as either a standalone hard drive cloning station for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA or IDE HDDs (or any combination IDE/SATA 2.5 ...

I just recently got a new rig, and now I want to copy some files off of my old IDE HDD onto my new SATA HDD. I've hooked up the IDE and tried jumpering it as "neutral position" "single position" "dual ...

Sabrent has the true one-stop storage management solution for SATA and IDE HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives like CD/DVD-RW. It easily connects to Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems and other ...

The project utilizes the 82C55 chip in order to create a simple design of connecting a standard IDE interface hard drive to a 8051 board. It uses a software that can provide access to raw sectors ...

My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad A30, and I have no intention of replacing it. It gets laughs from all those who see it in action, since it's a big, bulky, heavy, old laptop... but it surprises some ...

Master and slave settings on IDE hard drives are designed so you can put two drives on a single IDE cable. One acts as the master or main drive and the other is the slave. A hard drive's master or ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.