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First post, by markot

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I'm planning to give away my old and small IDE hard drives as I don't have much use for them. Most of them are between 20 to 40 gigabytes, not good for really anything. Hard drives between 120 to 160 gigabytes are what I'm more interested about, but it's difficult to find new IDE hard drives. So my plan (if it is a good plan) is to buy SATA/IDE adapters that I can stick to the motherboard IDE connectors and then connect a modern SATA drive to them, as SATA drives are what you get today everywhere. Or should I keep looking for new IDE hard drives? If using SATA drives, which SATA/IDE adapters on ebay are proven long lasting and reliable?

Reply 1 of 2, by cyclone3d

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The cheapo ones from China work just fine. Not really much to them to go bad. They pretty much all use the same chipset.

You can also get PCI SATA controllers that are bootable and also have drivers for Windows 98 if you want to do that.

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