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 ...

What is the ideal setup for Hard drives and CD-Roms on IDE Controllers. I usually put my Ultra 100 hard drive on one IDE controller with a 80 pin cable and the CD-Rom on the second IDE with a 40 pin ...

Granite Digital on Thursday introduced its $39.95 USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Bridge Adapter Kit. The device enables you to attach a raw Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE hard disk drive mechanism to a Mac or PC using ...

X-bit Labs rates 13 different IDE hard disk drives. Interestingly enough, no particular hard drive dominates more than a handful of the benchmark tests. Read Share this story Subscribe and interact ...

So you fancy yourself a FOSS devotee, do you? Running GNU/Linux on your old ThinkPad, avoiding devices that need binary blobs? Got LibreBoot installed too? Not bad, not bad. But what about the hard ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA ...

The old or the new, it doesn't matter with the VT6421 controller. Its pair of 150-Mbit/s Serial ATA (SATA) manages new SATA drives, and its parallel ATA-133 interfaces support a pair of ...