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 ...

Hard disk drives connect to a motherboard using either a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment connector or an Integrated Drive Electronics connector. SATA drives are newer than IDE, so older ...

I have a lot of extra hard drives laying around. Some of the drives are SATA and some of them are old IDE drives. I am thinking about getting rack/removable tray to go into one of my 5.25" bays so I ...

With its hot swap technology the EzCopy DD4 now has available 3.5″ and 2.5″ caddies allowing any IDE or SATA drives be attached to the EzCopy DD4 and making possible the creation of an exact copy of ...

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 ...

Pro Legendary HDD brand that created 3.5-inch format makes surprising comeback at CES 2026 — could illustrious names like Maxtor, Iomega or SyQuest be next? Software & Services Best disk cloning ...

StarTech.com specializes in designing and manufacturing and even selling a number of adapters converting one format to another along with a number of accessories to handle any need you may have. Today ...

Sabrent has introduced the USB-DS12, a USB-C to SATA and IDE adapter, designed to facilitate the connection and management of various storage drives. This versatile adapter is compatible with 2.5-inch ...

IDE drives simply have no place in your setup in 2026. They offer abysmal transfer speeds, are ancient technology at this ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

Like Westley in the "Princess Bride" sometimes hard drives are only mostly dead. If you have a drive that appears kaput, you can sometimes retrieve the data off of it using a USB to SATA/IDE connector ...