I'm looking to buy a new internal hard drive. I'm not sure what type of connection I have for it, though, whether it's SATA or PATA. How do I find this out?
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I'm looking to buy a new internal hard drive. I'm not sure what type of connection I have for it, though, whether it's SATA or PATA. How do I find this out?
One way is to look at the connector on the drive. See Figure Two on this link.
http://www.directron.com/patasata.html
If you have a system more than a couple of years old, odds are you are PATA (or IDE). Does it have a wide ribbon cable connecting it to the motherboard?
Yeah, it's a wide-ribbon cable and the system was made in 2002. So it looks like PATA. Are there converters I could get and how much do they usually run?
You could get a PCI controller card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816102061
Why do you want to change from IDE?
As jimbo1763 already hinted,
Considering costs,
Purchasing a PCI SATA card just to run SATA drive(s) would not be cost effective.
