| Quote: | | | Originally Posted by Vis-Leftfoot | | | | |
| Hi peeps,
Am having a problem hope i can find some answers here.
Recently have gotten an old PC which is a first batch P4, motherboard have got no Sata slot. I wanted to add another Sata Hdd to it from another PC that i realised that there's no sata slot.
I have got the wires for power for sata hdd. Are there or are there any converter wires on the market that convert sata to the normal Ide bus wire then to the motherboard?
Visited two PC shops, one told me to get a sata card, another told me there's no way to backward convert thus getting a external case will be better..
Any advise from anyone?? All advise are much appreciated.. | |
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I had a SATA 1 controller on my mobo. I needed SATA 2. So i bought a PCI SATA 2 controller and hooked up my HDDs to that.
That's what you can do as well. Get a PCI SATA 2 controller and hook up the devices to that instead.
Or you can buy an eSATA card and connect your HDDs to a storage box with eSATA output and connect via that.
