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 ...

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

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 ...

For system builders, this situation presents a great opportunity to distinguish themselves from Tier One system vendors. While they are still pushing systems with essentially obsolete disk technology, ...

I am transforming an old (2004?) Athlon 2400 based box, into a modern machine. I am reusing everything that is still good, including case, 430 watt Antec power supply and two 7200 rpm Seagate SATA ...

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 ...

Q. I have a computer with a 10 gig IDE hard drive in it. I just picked up an 80 gig IDE hard drive. I want to install it as a second drive. I’ve heard that I could run into some trouble, possibly with ...

Master and slave settings on IDE hard drives are designed so you can put two drives on a single IDE cable. One acts as the master or main drive and the other is the slave. A hard drive's master or ...