I have recently taken apart some old PCs and found an HDD that uses this cable, but my motherboard doesn’t seem to have a connector. Is there a way to connect this to SATA or PCIE?
edit: hdd, not ssd
IDE was a step up from SCSI bs
Incorrect.
IDE hard disk connection, pre-SATA.
you might be able to find an adapter somewhere.
PATA = Pre SATA
sigh…
Yep.
Mhmm
I still remember the “master” and “slave” settings on HDD’s.
The “master” drive is the primary device, and the “slave” is the secondary. The configuration was set via jumpers on the hard drive or by using a “cable select” cable.
Having two HDD’s installed in my PC felt like a achievement at the time.
I have a USB cable with that and the laptop variant on the end. Works really well. Hard drives from 20-30 years ago show up on my MacBook as easy as flash drives. But very slow. As expected for those drives.
Oof, my back…
This is IDE or PATA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA
You can find IDE to SATA adapters online.
Edit: just realized how old I am now :(
i don’t remember how much i paid for my first 8+ gb hdd in the 1990s, but it was probably $200 or more… for what now fits on a $5 flash drive.
An 80 wire one, too, so it probably supports some manner of “Ultra” ATA. 66 or maybe even upwards of 100 MB/sec!
You found an SSD that uses that cable? IDE SSDs exist, but they’re mostly modern devices for old systems.
Laptops for a while had these on the 2.5 inchers, and then I remember a very small window of time having IDE 2.5 inch ssds, but it was a very narrow window
What laptops do you remember with a 2.5" IDE ssd? Microdrive hard drives were more popular in laptops than their CF counterparts just because SSDs were so slow and low capacity. SSDs didn’t take off until right before NVME era.
Disk on modules existed, but those were for industrial PCs and nothing a normal person would ever actually use.
There’s no way I could remember a model number or brand. I worked Geek Squad back then and replaced probably thousands of laptop hard drives. Number one point of failure
Thats an IDE connector, i think. Old conection for drives. AFAIK there are no SSDs that use IDE so its probably using a SATA to IDE adapter so you could just take it out and conect directly to SATA.
My first SSD had PATA(IDE) connnection. It was tiny, but stilll faster than my 7200 rpm HDD for gaming at the time.
There are SSD drives still being sold with IDE(PATA) connections! Expensive for what they are. Probably replacements for older vending machines or other electronic things that last decades.
IDE
That’s an IDE connector.
Try something like this: https://www.newegg.com/riitop-35ide2sata-mndl-ide-to-sata/p/35G-0009-00054?Item=9SIA6V89YW2632
thanks, ill try
https://www.amazon.co.uk/IDE-SATA-Converter/s?k=IDE+to+SATA+Converter
Something like this is probably what your after
Also I hate that we now live in a world where people dont know what an ide cable is 🤣
Kids these days, they don’t even know how to change the ribbon in a typewriter.
What, so you’re telling me that’s “silly” because it’s no longer relevant? Well, about that…
Im old enough to know how to do that too. My comment was clearly ment to be humorous.
It was one of those I feel old moments nothing moee
I think the technical name for that connector is “nostalgia”.
IDE Cable. The end with two of these plugs goes to the drive, the end with one plug goes to the mobo. If it’s a two-plug cable, it don’t matter.
Get an IDE to SATA adapter or IDE to USB adapter to connect this drive.
I swear I saw this movie from the gif on TV once but I can’t remember the name and only remember a small section of it
Was going to post this exact gif
My god I’ve never felt so old until this post
Same.
Should also see the IDE slave/master jumper on the drive itself.
So like… What does the jumper do?
Many IDE cables used to come with 2-4+ daisy chained connectors allowing you to plug in multiple drives into a single cable on a single IDE bus.
This meant that you had to ensure any downstream HDDs would be configured as slaves to show up properly to the system.
You could either do this manually by setting the jumper to slave (usually just removing it) or setting the jumper to cable select which would automatically configure master slave drives for you.
Example for a Seagate drive:
In your case, you could either use the master select or cable select and it wouldn’t matter since you only have one drive.
No Masters, no Slaves - only Cable Select!
For those who know: remember to book your prostate exam
Damn… 32 isn’t that old, is it ?
Basically dead.
