The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    adapter issues

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by boathooker, May 17, 2010.

  1. boathooker

    boathooker Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hey,I bought a travelstar 500 gig sata hard drive for my dell m170, the drive that is in it is a ata/ide drive, it has an an adapter,(or connector) so it can interface with the computer. The ata/ide drive is of the 44 pin type, the sata drive is of the non pin type,( not sure what it's called) so is there an adapter,(or connector) out there that will let me use the sata drive?
     
    boathooker, May 17, 2010
    #1
  2. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    801
    Messages:
    3,881
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    probably not.

    sata and pata are not just different pins, the electrical and logic characteristics are completely different. Any adapter would require the use of a bridge IC, a number of resistors and capacitors, and possible an additional power connector. Typically there is not enough room to use an adapter board to let you put a modern hard drive into an obsolete laptop.
     
    newsposter, May 17, 2010
    #2