Installing a SATA SSD with IDE only MOBO

zthermo · May 3, 2013

Hello,

I would like to install a SSD into my HP Pavilion 7955 which is about 10 years old.

It has a IDE hard drive and the MOBO has no SATA interface.

How am I to install the SSD if the MOBO has a IDE interface? I've searched forums there is no clear answer.

Use an adapter? Some other option? Any help is appreciated.

djkillz · May 3, 2013

I dont know if you can you might have to upgrade your motherboard.

kenrivers · May 3, 2013

You may be able to find an adapter here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100006519%2040003022&IsNodeId=1&Description=sata%20to%20ide%20adapter&name=Hard%20Drive%20Adapters&Order=BESTMATCH
The SSD's performance will be hampered by the IDE controller.

zthermo · May 3, 2013

kenrivers :

Thanks kenrivers....I was looking around at Newegg as well for an adapter. That's pretty much what I thought I'd need. Was hoping for some sort of work around, but I guess it's not there b/c of the interfaces. It really stinks being in the CPU dark ages!

Dereck47 · May 3, 2013

A PCIe card will give you better (slightly) performance than an IDE-to-SATA adapter.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115072

mad-max79 · May 3, 2013

You can buy a PCI addon card to provide SATA ports, but in case of performance I would suggest to upgrade first to a newer computer, because your old machine will not ask fast enough for data.

YURBAN · Dec 3, 2013

You must buy IDE Controller Like ITE 8212F and Adapter SATA-IDE like Digitus!
http://www.hwmasters.com/ru/articles/installing_sata_hdd_on_ide

Hawkeye22 · Dec 3, 2013

Even if you use a controller or an adapter, you may not be able to boot from it. It depends on the controller and your motherboard. If it is to be used just as a storage drive, then you could get away with it.

JohnnyLucky · Dec 3, 2013

You are correct about your motherboard. It certainly is an old one. As you already know, the motherboard and the board's Intel chipset do not support modern 3rd generation SATA 3 6Gb/s solid state drives.

There is another problem with trying to use some sort of adapter or converter card. The better cards require a PCIe 2.0 x4 slot on the motherboard. You motherboard does not have any PCIe slots.

That leaves you with a PCI slot and an IDE header, neither of which work well with modern ssd's. The ssd might work but performance will be severely restricted. It won't be much different from your hard disk performance. In addition, Hawkeye22 correctly stated that you may not be able to boot your pc from an ssd.

Sorry about the bad news.

BTW - I have a friend who is still surfing the web with an ancient Intel Pentium 3, 500MHz system, a Sony CRT monitor, and Microsoft Windows 95. The pc has been running quite reliably since 1999 - 14 years and still up and still running!

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