Here is a useful gadget if you want to connect some IDE hard drives to your PC via USB or eSATA, the USB + eSATA to IDE Adapter. The USB + eSATA to IDE Adapter lets you connect any IDE device to a USB ...

No magic here, just a CS8818 USB 2.0-to-IDE bridge and a power supply. The SATA-to-eSATA interface doesn't require any bridging, although it does need power for the drive. This makes the SATA-to-eSATA ...

Sabrent has introduced the USB-DS12, a USB-C to SATA and IDE adapter, designed to facilitate the connection and management of various storage drives. This versatile adapter is compatible with 2.5-inch ...

The IDE JBOD (just a bunch of disks)/RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) PCIe (PCI Express) controller adds an extra channel, RAID capability, and JBOD capability to any desktop system, and ...

Sharkoon has extended its popular QuickPort ranga of hard drive docks with the release of its QuickPort Combo eSATA HDD dock that allows for both 2.5 and 3.5-inch sized drives to be dropped into it ...

Addonics has added new portable optical drives to its line that feature a built-in eSATA and USB interface. The new Pocket Blu-ray/DVDRW and the Pocket DVD-RRW drive provide throughput up to ...

I recently bought a lacie quadra 2TB drive to use for video editing. When I first connected it as eSATA it wouldn't recognize the drive, so I connected as firewire and realized I needed to run a ...

I'm not much of an expert, but here's my knowledge on the subject.<BR><BR>IDE is the interface you're familiar with, ribbon cables and everything. It's a Parallel ATA system, hence PATA. It's growing ...

Pro Legendary HDD brand that created 3.5-inch format makes surprising comeback at CES 2026 — could illustrious names like Maxtor, Iomega or SyQuest be next? Software & Services Best disk cloning ...

Not everyone has the luxury of frequent PC upgrading cycle. While we still see many IDE hard drives, it is starting to go down in production number. What do you do if you have a SATA hard drive that ...

We'll dive straight into our read tests. Remember that we're using two different models of SATA and IDE drive. Interestingly, the IDE drive performed better in our tests, although the SATA drive was ...