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October 4th, 2005 15:00
How to convert your IDE drive to SATA
Hey guy's, i just purchased an XPS 600 about a week ago and i'm currently awaiting it's arrival in the next coming days. As i was going over the system specs i became somewhat disapointed to find out that the system board only has one IDE connector, meaning i could only connect 2 IDE devices to my computer. This was kind of a bummer seeing as how i have about 5 other IDE drives that i commonly use in my existing system by swapping them in and out with the 2 drive racks i have. Well every system needs a CD rom drive so that means that i could only use 1 of the drive racks as the system is currently configured. So i started doing a little research and there seems to be a simple solution to my dilema, an IDE to SATA converter! I found several different models available online and i just purchased 2 of the smallest ones i could find on ebay. If anyone else is interested you can check them out here
IDE to SATA converter
This will allow me to connect my old IDE hard drive or CD-ROM drive to the several available SATA cables available in my XPS 600. Just wanted to share this with everyone on the board as i figured someone else out there might be wondering the same thing. Hope this helps!:smileywink:
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