So I purchased a CD-RW drive the other day (the 40x10x16x LG, which I like very much so far, btw) and in the course of installing it I managed to twist up one of my IDE cables pretty good, cause I was ...

Why Zip drives and IDE cables taught better storage habits than SSDs ever will ...

Over the years of computing, computers have always been known to have these ugly gray ribbon cables inside of them connecting there hard disks to the motherboard. Well recently people have been ...

Building a modern computer is something plenty of us have done, and with various tools available to ensure that essentially the only thing required of the end user is to select parts and have them ...

Today we’re looking at the Brando USB to SATA/IDE converter. If you’re testing an unknown drive you have to either use a removable drive rack or an external drive enclosure to run the drive without ...

Now the word's gone all SATA, what to do with those obsolete IDE cables stashed in the junk draw? Fractal Spin decided to turn them into belts, taking the most colorful examples and evoking the ...

While sifting through the HotHardware mail bin, I came upon a device that I'm sure a lot of you would love to have. The Brando USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Cable, which X-Bit labs currently has for review, ...

Check out the IDE to SD card adapter which is designed to let you use an SD card with your computer as your hard drive. It is designed to replace your HDD or serve as an additional HDD. This SD card ...

There are dozens of different 3D printable cases out there for the Raspberry Pi, but the BeagleBone Black, as useful as it is, doesn’t have as many options. The folks at 3D hubs thought they could ...

If you have ever experienced data loss on your computer, please put your hand up in the air now. Keep your hand raised, if the data you lost were so critical, that it almost made you pull the hair out ...

Ok, so Im sitting here trying to figure out a way to clean up my box, and I got a question. You know how an IDE Cable looks something like this. =_____=_____= where the = is a connector and the _ is ...