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 ...

Parallel ATA (IDE) uses 40 pins, not 26. 26 was for floppies. But it's a standard 40-pin "header" connector. Sometimes called "IDC". CF cards have the PATA interface on a 50-pin connector. I don't ...

USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

I'm pretty sure there are only <-ATA33 and ATA66/100 . The first are usually just referred to as IDE cables, the second as either ATA66 or ATA100. The ATA33/IDE cables are almost always Light Gray ...

The project utilizes the 82C55 chip in order to create a simple design of connecting a standard IDE interface hard drive to a 8051 board. It uses a software that can provide access to raw sectors ...

Every now and again there a few simple and somewhat useful bits of kit that come onto the market that assist in making slightly older systems and their components work with newer technologies. The ...

A compact car that runs on a coal boiler. A cell phone that only allows you to text via Morse code. And a modern, multi-terabyte 2.5-inch SSD that connects to a motherboard with an IDE interface. What ...