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 ...

You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your ...

Are you still quite fond of your IDE drives? If you're not wanting to switch over to SATA drives, you'll not have much of a choice when purchasing new drives in the future. We already knew it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IDE hard drives used in most PCs are essentially obsolete and should be replaced with SATA (Serial ATA) drives in new shipments of PCs. For a systems builder, this situation presents a great ...

We are seeking confirmation of an odd report from MacFixIt reader J. Dugan, who reports that the presence of an internal Maxtor IDE drive was the culprit behind damaged DVDs. "I have a Power Mac G4 ...

Accordance Systems has released its new ARAID 1500 Dual Mode (US$365) and ARAID 2000 Dual Mode ($370) RAID devices. Both slide into a pair of drive bays and connect to either IDE or SATA drive ports; ...

If you're struggling with decreased performance on a Windows based machine, it's a simple fix to check to make sure your IDE drives aren't operating in a slower, ineffective transfer mode. When fresh ...

Recently, we covered an issue with connecting Zip drives that mentioned Master and Slave positions on an IDE/ATAPI bus. Essentially, if two devices are on the same bus; one must be designated the ...

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 ...