Twozzok Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 Ok, so my mum replaced her laptops harddrive with a larger one and gave me the old one. I'm running out of space on my current hard drives so I thought, instead of buying a new one i'd just buy an adaptor for the 2.5" IDE -> 3.5" IDE, but the only kind of adaptors I can find, plug straight into the motherboard instead of into a proper IDE cable. Basically what i'm looking for is a little converter that converts the 48 pinnage of a 2.5" hard drive into the 40 pinnage of a 3.5". This will then plug into the 'slave' connector on an IDE cable. Also, is there anywhere in can buy extra pin jumpers? Edit: I've also looked into buying an external caddy for it, but then it'd be limited by USB transfer speeds which isn't good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 USB transfer speeds serve me quite well with my external 200 GB HD, and most laptops have a lower rpm anyway, thus their transfer speed is already limited, making any eventual margin with the USB transfer speed even smaller. (I'm assuming you have USB 2.0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twozzok Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 Yeah, I have USB 2.0 I've also started considering making a media box with it, though if it's 5400rpm as it probably is, then damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 You want one of these. However a laptop hard drive isn't really any good for a media box, even the 7200rpm drives are slower than IDE 7200 drives. Especially when you think, I just got a SATAII drive 250 gig, with 16mb cache for £55. HDD's are just so cheap these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli1983uk Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 you can buy the 2.5 to 3.5 adapters off ebay that plug into an IDE cable, i bought one off there a while ago to plug my bros hdd in to my comp, there are fairly cheap, if i find the one i got here u can have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli1983uk Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Hi, I have found the adapter plate for the laptop hard drive if you still want it, let me know and we can sort it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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