[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

[David Ritchie]

Fry's has small one that will fit on the back of a drive - look for SATA
cables and they are on  the same aisle (in Milton).

5983774 -- SATA to PATA HARD-DRIVE ADAPTER
http://www.frys.com/product/5983774?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
$16.99 - There may be other mail order places that are cheaper..

-- David

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's another good idea.  I will keep that in mind as a fallback plan
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Get a USB case.  I have a couple adapters to do exactly what you're
>> trying to do (run an IDE drive in a SATA-only system) but I haven't
>> tried them yet.  I do have several USB-IDE cases that I use for various
>> things (I still have six machines with IDE drives) and have no problem
>> using dd/rsync or anything else.
>>
>> Is your IDE drive a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch?  I actually picked up two
>> USB-IDE 2.5-inch external cases from Fry's for less than $10 each.  One
>> is actively running right now as the primary drive for my RPi mail
>> server (I have a pile of 2.50-inch drives laying around).
>>
>> I have also seen cabled adapters that have no housing.  It's just the
>> bare IDE connector with a USB cable hanging off of it.
>>
>> On 2015-01-07 06:50, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> > Yep - talking down to old drives, as opposed to running new drive in old
>> > cases.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> So the other way around
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I doubt I can fit the adapter into the ReplayTV case, so I'm looking
>> at
>> >>> the adapter more to allow me to load the PATA drive from my more
>> modern
>> >>> systems that
>> >>> have SATA controllers
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Is PATA to SATA will give you significant speed increase or just
>> >>>> convinience of using HDD that are more common today?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Anyone had experience with such a device?  I have to replace a
>> drive on
>> >>>>> my ReplayTV box, which uses IDE
>> >>>>> drives only, and while I have an old desktop which still uses PATA,
>> I
>> >>>>> will probably forget this fact and toss it out at siome point.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ​What I need to be able to do is load the IDE drive via dd, and if
>> the
>> >>>>> SATA:PATA adapter allows that as if the drive be controlled via a
>> PATA/IDE
>> >>>>> interface, I will get one.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> TIA for any info/advice​
>> >>>>>
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