[mythtvnz] IDE-SATA adaptor?

[Steve Hodge]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> My backend needs more storage. It has no more sata ports, and no more
> PCI/PCIe slots to put in a SATA card.
>
> It does have a spare IDE header on the motherboard. Is there an
> adaptor that I can use to convert the motherboard's IDE header to a
> sata drive? Google kinda tells me there is, but I can't find any
> locally, and there is a deal of confusion from my google searches. The
> confusion is between adaptors that allow you to use a IDE drive on a
> SATA motherboard on the one hand, and what I want (SATA drive on IDE
> motherboard) on the other hand.
>

http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=ADPSTL13114&name=STLab-S-250-3.5-SATA-to-IDE-%28PATA%29-Converter


> Alternatively PCIe to 4 sata port card that works with linux (I have a
> PCIe to two SATA port at present).
>

http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=ADPSTL13110&name=STLab-A-224-4-Channel-Serial-ATA-RAID-PCI-Card-6-P

These ones only have 2 internal ports, but do have 2 external ports:
http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=ADPSTL12854&name=STLab-A-341-PCIe-SATA-II-RAID-CARD-2-CHANNEL-2x-EX
http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=ADPSTL19647&name=STLab-A-480-2-Port-SATA-PCI-e

I'm not sure about Linux support for these, but I doubt you'd have problems.


> Or a source of IDE 2 or 3 TB hard drives?
>

I don't think they exist. At least not at any reasonable price.

Cheers,
Steve
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