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SATA Cables and Normal Hard Drives
Is there some sort of adapter that will let you use SATA cables with normal
hard drives? I have 4 hard drives and I thought if this were possible then the inside of my case wouldn't look so cluttered. Cheers. Si -- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy. |
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http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/accessory.htm
Not sure that they're worth buying ... might be cheaper just to get new drives. "Si" wrote in message ... Is there some sort of adapter that will let you use SATA cables with normal hard drives? I have 4 hard drives and I thought if this were possible then the inside of my case wouldn't look so cluttered. Cheers. Si -- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy. |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:29:50 +0100, "Si"
wrote: Is there some sort of adapter that will let you use SATA cables with normal hard drives? I have 4 hard drives and I thought if this were possible then the inside of my case wouldn't look so cluttered. Yes they exist, example: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...999-111&depa=0 It may not make it look THAT much less cluttered though, having twice as many SATA cables and those things hanging off the back of the drive. IMHO, you just need the proper length of rounded PATA cables, save the serial ATA interface for the next drives you buy. |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:29:50 +0100, "Si"
wrote: Is there some sort of adapter that will let you use SATA cables with normal hard drives? I have 4 hard drives and I thought if this were possible then the inside of my case wouldn't look so cluttered. Cheers. Si I was going to say if you do buy them - the adaptors which I use, get them on Ebay . And thats one of the few recommendations Ill give to Ebay since overall I dont think their prices are all that great but the adaptors are cheap on Ebay and they work fine. The problem of course is youre in the UK I assume so obviously it wont be worth it to buy them from an american vendor. Its possible you could find some cheap UK vendor on the UK website. Either way - the rounded PATA cables or SATA with adaptors - would work and decreases the clutter, The ribbon cables really make a mess in there if you have lots of HDs and CD drives and DVD burners too. The ones I got Silicon Image ---- also require a floppy disk type power connector too so with many cases you end up using them all up. If you only have one of course you need to buy two - 2 for each hard disk and one for your floppy. The only thing Id look out for is some posters claim some of those rounded PATA cables are really fragile where the connectors are. |
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