By Kalou
Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:44 am
313 studio tricks wrote:yeah those adapters are passive. they just pass wires to a smaller standard 44 pin connector style.
i really hope my ssd works for a long time. i assume transcend is a decent brand. i dont promise that it will work any better than your last drive, but going from what i read, others have had active IDE > SATA adapters go bad on them. i also assume that native IDE is always better than IDE > SATA conversion. i am only assuming. but of course that assumption comes from years of fixing computers and observing what goes and delineating why. everything i know has gone apparently way wrong at one point or another. technology does not always behave.
like me. you can count on me misbehavin err now and then
I'm happy to give it a go. Even if the IDE SSD is a only a small percentage less likely to be problematic it's worth it to me. I've ordered the pin adapter. Thanks again to of you ya for the info.