IDE to USB Adapter (What it does)
by Larry McLemore
IDE stands for, "Intelligent Drive Electronics or Integrated Drive Electronics,". It is what connects the hard drive or CD ROM to your computer. It is known mostly for connecting storage devices to a computer. The IDE to USB adapter allows you to connect an old internal hard drive to your computer externally. We have talked mostly about flash drives as external storage devices, but their capacity is usually way less than a hard drive. The attraction to a flash drive is that you can put it in your pocket and carry it to other locations. It is true that these old hard drives are bigger, but they are still fairly small and make great storage devices. There has always been the problem of what to do with old hard drives, try to erase the information on them or destroy them so no one else can get the information. Well this is another alternative and I have done it myself. I told you in last weeks newsletter that I had ordered and received one of these adapters and it works great. I have two old hard drives, one with a capacity of 30 Gigabytes and the other with a capacity of 6 Gigabytes. The largest flash drive I have is 512 MB, so you can see I have much more storage with the old hard drives.
Here is how it works, the kit comes with one IDE to USB 2.0 cable and one power cable, here is a photo,Click Here. Here is how it looks connected to one of my old hard drives. Click Here. If you have a popup stopper, you may have to hold down the "Ctrl" key on your keyboard while you click on the photos.
The kit that I bought I got through TigerDirect, it is a Sabrent USB 2.0 to IDE cable kit and it cost $16.99 plus shipping. You can order off our new web site, at www.computersandgifts.com. TigerDirect is right there on the first page, when you get to their site, just put "IDE to USB" in their search and it will bring it up. I also stopped at Microcenter the other day and found they sell a kit made by Bytecc Inc, the price was $19.99. To see if there is a Microcenter near you, go to www.microcenter.com
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