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Does anyone make a hard drive dock that supports both eide and sata?

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tcscharnberg   09-10-2009 at 07:24:27 PM

Does anyone make a USB dock that you can use with both IDE and SATA drives?

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tosh9i   09-10-2009 at 09:45:37 PM

This was all I could find:
http://pctechbytestoday.com/2008/0 [...] -stations/

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number13   09-11-2009 at 02:40:11 PM

I use a adapter that adapts my IDE to sata connection, they are cheap, I have my computer that has 1-500GB SATA, 1-250GB SATA, 1-320GB IDE 1- 300GB IDE, 1 80GB IDE and a 1.5TB ESATA, that use all the SATA connectors on my MB, so if I need any more HDD's I'll have to add a PCI card and connect all the adapted IDE's on it( they operate on the slower SATA 1 config)

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tcscharnberg   09-11-2009 at 04:15:04 PM

Thanks, Tosh9i & number13. I have those adapters, 13, and they are OK, but I really need something more like the Thermaltake dock that tosh's link shows. I have one of the SATA docks from them and it is great. I am constantly dropping drives in there to format, etc. In my job, I have a large number of drives that come in and out through my office that I have to take a look at. Was hoping for something that combined both SATA and IDE in a dock type format, but looks like that isn't available. Thanks again.

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got2bghetto   10-18-2009 at 06:46:59 PM

Well, there is StarTech.com's Universal USB to SATA IDE External HDD Docking Station. It's usually a special order at places like Provantage and PC Connection, but I think you can order it directly from StarTech.

Take a look:

http://www.startech.com/item-stock [...] rives.aspx

I was just about to order one for myself!

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tcscharnberg   10-28-2009 at 03:31:56 AM

Thanks, got2b. Excellent suggestion. It looks like just what I was searching for.

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