Tiny IDE-SATA converter

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adamvk

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My Cosmos case came today, and I'm not gonna put everything in yet because I don't have everything. Looking at my current hdd that I will re-use, the ide-sata converter won't fit in the Cosmos HDD cage because it is so large. Is there a very small ide-sata converter somewhere? Thanks!

The reason why I want it to be SATA is because it is my boot drive, and when it isn't sata, for some reason it takes 30+ seconds for the mobo to find the windows partition to boot from. So If you have a solution for this, even better. :)
 
"A 320GB SATA drive would be around $100"

More like $50-$60... But those adapters are usually terrible and not worth the headache.
 
thebeephaha said:
"A 320GB SATA drive would be around $100"

More like $50-$60... But those adapters are usually terrible and not worth the headache.
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The one I have right now works amazing. Also I don't want to reinstall Windows again, that is basically why I want to keep this HDD and just get a SATA converter.
 
adamvk said:
HDD adapters are usually $10-15. A 320GB SATA drive would be around $100. Care to explain?
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Not $100 (500GB drives are ~$89) and a tiny converter is likely to be more than a generic bulky one.. (so more than $10-$15)

And swapping to SATA may require a reinstall anyways (depending on if drivers for SATA are installed and if Windows will accept the change of boot device)

Your call though.
 
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