Conversion for IDE to SATA possible?

[silverfoxcc]

Have a old PC that is used mainly for prinitng, Autocad, and file storage of Slides etc

Looking inside it seems that the C drive and D drive are IDE the old ribbon connectionsand lage 4pin power connectors
Two other drives E and F are SATA with the red inof cable and both power and this are small connectors

I have had it upgraded ,at last, to WIn10 and the chap ,doing at least cost to me for my needs, put id a 120gb SSD
This looks like i am now left with na SATA HD with not connection in either power or data

IS there a gizmo on the market that i can plug into the power cable for the ide to convert the connector to fit the SATA HD and is there similar to do likewise with the data cable.

OR am i balked and have to get a new MB with sata connections ( at least 5)


TIA

[droopsnoot]

When it was the other way around, and I had an old PC that had an IDE interface but no SATA, I used a cheap add-on PCI SATA controller board to add the SATA drive to the machine, I'm sure something like that must be still around if you have the slot for it. I must have got an adapter for the power, too.

[Harpoon]

Is this the right way round? Plug a SATA HD into a IDE port?

https://www.ebuyer.com/566784-startech-com-40-pin-...

[Motorman74]

I'm not 100% sure what you are asking to be honest.

If you are looking to connect a SATA SSD to a Parallel ATA (ribbon cable type lead like older hard disks had) then something like this would do it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Multibao-Interface-Adapte...

If you are trying to boot the computer from the drive, you'd want to connect it to one of the existing on board SATA connections, as trying to boot with something like that could be a challenge...

[silentbrown]

silverfoxcc said:

IS there a gizmo on the market that i can plug into the power cable for the ide to convert the connector to fit the SATA HD and is there similar to do likewise with the data cable.

You'll want something like this. https://business.currys.co.uk/catalogue/computing/...

Remember that a 1TB SATA HDD is only £35 to start with. Given that IDE spec is over 35 years old and your IDE drives are probably small, slow and at the end of their life, this whole exercise seems a bit of false economy. How old is the motherboard/processor that you've got?

[king arthur]

Could you not just get a new larger SATA SSD and partition it into two drives E and F and copy the data over from those two older drives? You can get 500Gb for less than £20 now.

[Captain_Morgan]

Given the use case for this pc & you noting it’s storing files/slides & running on quite old hardware might I ask what your backup procedure is?

[biggiles]

Can you use USB enclosures?

[silverfoxcc]

Harpoon and motorman

Those look exactly like what i was thinking of

Just get one of these cards, plug it into the new SSD and then plug the ide connections into that.

Oh forgot to add The 120gb SSD he guy installed if the boot disc for Win!0. so i will have to install

PaintShop Pro, Pinnacle Studio and Autocad onto one of the other drives

Back up is a bit messy at the moment

Mrs Fox is paranoid about losing pics that i have got the same files on each of the Drives!!

So the data is mostly her digital pics and my Autocad drawings along with letters and excel files
I was going to copy each file across to the next disc to check that they all the same and then just delete ant duplicated files thus freeing up space and getting a better idea of what spare capacity i have

I think i will get a 1TB drive and start there transferring files across, and if that goes ok then by another adaptor and another SSD. Later on replace the two SATA drives with SSD

Many thanks for all the suggestions

[silentbrown]

How big are the current set of drives that you have?

Personally I'd have just put in a single 1TB SSD and put the IDE drives in the skip. Running a SATA drive over IDE is madness, as the transfer rate is up to 40 times slower than SATA.

[e-honda]

You can get and IDE to m.2 sata adapter
https://www.amazon.co.uk/M-2-NGFF-44pin-adapter-ca...
I bought one for an old laptop but i have not got round to fitting it yet

[MickC]

As someone above said, running SATA (and especially SSDs!) over IDE is mad, the performance will be really bad. That might not matter to you, and if they are just data drives it will be fine if it gets you out of a fix for a while, but actually planning to buy a new drive and plug it in via an adapter? The main use for these adaptors is to temporally connect a drive to a different system to allow data transfer to a more suitable drive.

Assuming the old kit has PCI or PCIe slots, you could add a SATA port expansion card, which would be much more performant (and also a bit less of a frig). 2 ports for 16 quid, 4 ports for 24, assuming PCIe. The cheaper ones wont be suitable for booting from, as they may need drivers, but ok for connection additional drives.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BEYIMEI-Express-Controlle...

You'd also need a sata data cable and molex to SATA power connectors, which are fairly cheap.