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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, on the other hand, is much easier to handle. As only two drives can be attached to an IDE port, there is only the Master or the Slave setting. No drive ID is required and the bus does not require ...

With standard consumer hard drive disk sizes quickly approaching 1TB for a single drive, this 16GB Flash-based drive (with a street price of about $500) from memory manufacturer Super Talent is puny.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though there are plenty of whatever-to-USB adapters out there, this critter just tickles our fancy with its extraordinary utility. The SATA / CF / IDE to USB 2.0 Bridge Adapter enables owners to ...

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 ...