i have a SATA hard drive and want to put it into an external bay. i have both,BUT the external bay is parralell and the drive is SATA, is it possible to cheaply convert it over with an invertor. just so you know to give you it all, the bay needs pins and the drive needs a standard sata connector, and i have tried ebay but i cant find the right one
2006-09-28 00:01:52 · 2 answers · asked by killbot123654 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=sata+to+pata
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=sata+to+pata&category0=
closest i've found..maybe just look for a diff ext enclosure too..
2006-09-28 00:11:47 · answer #1 · answered by iPiG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be better off buying a SATA enclosure for about the same price as an adaptor. The way you would keep the speed of the SATA drive rather then reducing it to ATA.
2006-09-28 07:16:18 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋