Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of S… ...

There are two ide plugs, I have a cd and dvd drives on one and a couple of harddisks on the other. <BR>Running 2.4.27 all drives are present and accounted for, but when I apt-get installed the 2.6 ...

That was back in the day when the average hard drive only provided about 200 MB of storage. IDE hard drives also use very wide ribbon cables, which tend to clog up the inside of a PC.

A'right, here's the skinny. I opened up one of my boxes today and attached an IDE hard drive. I used the power plug and data cable from an existing (non boot) Seagate 320GB drive.

Former IDE hard drive reviews at Tom’s Hardware Guide have always dealt with 7,200 rpm models, the so-called performance drives. Naturally, the budged drives cannot keep pace with them, as they ...

X-bit Labs rates 13 different IDE hard disk drives. Interestingly enough, no particular hard drive dominates more than a handful of the benchmark tests. Read We may earn a commission when you buy ...

The modules are available with 40 pins (100-mil spacing), for similar functionality to 2.5-inch hard-disk drives; 44 pins (2-mm spacing), for similar functionality to 3.5-inch drives; and 144 pins.

What makes the StarTech.com USB 3.0 to SATA IDE HDD Docking Station stand out from other docking stations is that while one dock uses the SATA hard drive interface - which all new hard drives use ...

Fortunately, they’re cheap; Newegg, for example, has the Rosewill RCW-616 Laptop 2.5″ to Desktop 3.5″ IDE Hard Drive Adapter Converter for just $4.99 shipped.