OK I did a search for "one IDE channel" and also "master or slave", and can't find my answer. So perhaps you can enlighten me. If I am installing a CD-Rom and hard drive on a single IDE ribbon cable, ...

Ok, so Im sitting here trying to figure out a way to clean up my box, and I got a question. You know how an IDE Cable looks something like this. =_____=_____= where the = is a connector and the _ is ...

Over the years of computing, computers have always been known to have these ugly gray ribbon cables inside of them connecting there hard disks to the motherboard. Well recently people have been ...

Today we’re looking at the Brando USB to SATA/IDE converter. If you’re testing an unknown drive you have to either use a removable drive rack or an external drive enclosure to run the drive without ...

While sifting through the HotHardware mail bin, I came upon a device that I'm sure a lot of you would love to have. The Brando USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Cable, which X-Bit labs currently has for review, ...

Why Zip drives and IDE cables taught better storage habits than SSDs ever will ...

There are dozens of different 3D printable cases out there for the Raspberry Pi, but the BeagleBone Black, as useful as it is, doesn’t have as many options. The folks at 3D hubs thought they could ...

SATA is an abbreviation for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment which is an IDE standard. It is a data access standard interface in modern computers used to transfer data at high rates via compact ...

Building a modern computer is something plenty of us have done, and with various tools available to ensure that essentially the only thing required of the end user is to select parts and have them ...