I got a new pc coming to me in the mail and it has a serial ATA connection to the hard drive. my current computer has just a serial connection. its just used as a storage drive and not a boot drive. I hear there is a cable that you can use to connect the 2. if so. where can i get one.? and what is it called.? Thanks for any help.
is your current one hooked in with a cable like this? If so then you will have no problem adding it as a slave drive
yes, but, the new computer has the smaller cable. and i want to have them both in there. and i assume that there will need to have a cable with both plugs. since they are different.
If the new motherboard also has IDE connections, which it should, there is no benefit to connecting to a serial drive connection, with an adapter, unless you have a slug of optical drives you are going to put in the computer.
do you have any specs on the system you have coming? most systems these days will have both IDE (serial) connections and SATA connection. If the new system only has SATA then an adapter may be your only choice. If it has both like it should then you will be fine. Like mine now has two IDE slots and 5 SATA slots. So i have 2 hard drives and a DVD burner running on the IDE and a DVD Rom drive and 2 more hard drives running on the SATA.
These are the specs that i got email to me about the computer. 222-5663 1 Dimension E521,Athlon 64 3500+(2.20GHz, 512K) 311-6540 1 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 310-8025 1 Dell USB Keyboard 310-7965 1 Dell USB 2-button mouse 320-5178 1 Video ready w/o Monitor, DIM A64 320-5088 1 256MB nVidia GeForce 7300LE TurboCache 341-4210 1 160GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM) 341-4028 1 No Floppy Drive Requested 466-2386 1 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, English 420-5769 1 Internet Search and Portal 420-5924 1 Icon Consolidation Application 463-2282 1 Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access 420-6436 1 Vista, PC-Restore, Dim/Insp 420-6481 1 Dell Support, Vista, Dim/Insp 313-4911 1 Dell Resource DVD with Application Backup 310-1966 1 Mouse included in Dell Wireless or Bluetooth Package 430-0412 1 Integrated NIC card 313-4593 1 56K PCI Data Fax Modem 412-0914 1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 313-4583 1 16X DVD-ROM and 16X DVD+/-RW 420-6464 1 Roxio Creator Basic 313-2758 1 Integrated Audio 313-2198 1 No Speaker Requested 412-0940 1 Norton Internet Security 2007 30 Day 412-0934 1 Earthlink 412-0933 1 AOL for Broadband 412-0912 1 MS Works 8.5 Plus Office Trial 950-3339 1 3 Year Limited Warranty 412-0359 1 Soft Contracts - Qualxserve 950-5462 1 Warranty Support,2 Year Extended 985-1268 1 Dell Hardware Warranty PlusOnsite Service, Initial Year 980-3280 1 Type 15- Third Party At Home Service with Nights and Weeke ends, 24x7 Technical Support, Initial Year 985-1269 1 Dell Hardware Warranty PlusOnsite Service, Extended Year 970-6702 1 Type 15- Third Party At Home Service with Nights and Wee kends, 24x7 Technical Support,2 Year Extended 960-2800 1 Warranty Support,Initial Year 960-0019 1 CompleteCare Accidental DamageProtection, Dimension, 3 Year 412-0358 1 Soft Contracts - Consumer Complete Care 310-8626 1 You have chosen a Windows Vista Premium System 412-0943 1 Basic digital Music,Photo and Game experience * 1 -DISCOUNT/COUPON APPLIED
board specs, http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dime521/en/SM_EN/specs.htm#wp1052310 board layout, http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dime521/en/SM_EN/techov.htm#wp1058256
Well, that solves the mystery. No IDE connections. Not my cup of tea. I wouldn't have it. Jove2k will need the adapter he showed.