On Thu, 14 May 2009 18:34:57 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have come into possession of a large number of IDE drives....so I'd
>like to use them on a sata motherboard specifically the ICH9R chipset
>but probably as JBOD so I can backup to disk....can anybody recommend
>converters that work? I had one given to me but it never worked....
>
>:/
>
>The ones I can see on trademe are,
>
>http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/C...-218260253.htm
>
>http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/O...-217796402.htm
>
>http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/C...-218183184.htm
>
>regards
>
>Thing
I have used two different ones, one from Jaycar and one I bought
through Ascent, and they both worked fine. Of course, they were
retail price and rather more expensive than those on Trademe now. But
there should be no reason why the Trademe ones would not work well. I
have only used mine to put IDE drives on SATA ports, but most of them
are advertised to work the other way around as well. My motherboard
uses IHC9R also.
Make sure you get one that includes the cables if you need them -
buying them separately would cost as much as those converters do.
Some have Molex power sockets (IDE) on the converter, and some have
SATA power sockets. Choose which you prefer. You still need to
provide power to the drive, as well as the converter, so you need more
power connectors from your PC power supply. It is easy to get Y
cables for Molex power plugs to add an extra plug, but I have not seen
the same for SATA, although I presume it will exist somewhere.
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