There are large SATA drives. On the other hand, I have a feeling you are thinking of PATA only.
As far as I remember, you might be the correct on them PATA drive size's.

IDE is PATA so yea.

750GB is the largest IDE hard drive for sure. I am willing to bet that 500GB and 750GB PATA drives are getting hard enough to find that you would be better off using a 1TB drive with an adapter.

It was just a thought, an alternative to finding a SATA option for RAID since older tech was built better anyway.

WD sold 1tb greens aways back.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/1TB-IDE-40-PIN-PATA-UDM … 7420?nav=SEARCH

Jade Falcon wrote:

WD sold 1tb greens aways back.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/1TB-IDE-40-PIN-PATA-UDM … 7420?nav=SEARCH

That shipping 🤣, can ship a loaded tower for that price.

Once got a 500GB WD Blue IDE for free from a seller on amazon by accident 😈
Looked up what was the common price for that drive and it was $90 😲

Why look for a large IDE, just get a large sata and an IDE to sata

I've never seen an IDE HD bigger than 750GB, but maybe they were made in limited numbers for business or commercial use.

candle_86 wrote:

Why look for a large IDE, just get a large sata and an IDE to sata

Be aware that a given SATA HD, a given SATA to IDE converter, and a given host PC (or original XBox, or home media player, etc) might not work well or at all, together. I don't know enough to give any advice, but ideally try before you buy, but since that's mostly not possible then if you're thinking of buying a converter then google and see what's known to work with the hardware you already have it.

Converters are cheap. Really cheap.
They can be bought as low as 2 US Dollars including shipping. I say go for it. Just buy four to six different type of converters and start testing.

computergeek92 wrote:

IDE is PATA so yea.

Yes. That's what I said. Pata and sata are both IDE.
In fact. They are ATA wich are IDE too.
ATA-33 to ATA-300 as an example.

candle_86 wrote:

Why look for a large IDE, just get a large sata and an IDE to sata

Right, and the mobos so old that only use IDE on the board may have the 137GB barrier. Might as well go with a SATA controller card to achieve higher disk size.

brostenen wrote:

Yes. That's what I said. Pata and sata are both IDE. In fact. They are ATA wich are IDE too. ATA-33 to ATA-300 as an example. […]
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computergeek92 wrote:

IDE is PATA so yea.

Yes. That's what I said. Pata and sata are both IDE.
In fact. They are ATA wich are IDE too.
ATA-33 to ATA-300 as an example.

No I always thought IDE was always PATA. If you search Ebay for IDE drives you get PATA drives.

brostenen wrote:

Converters are cheap. Really cheap.
They can be bought as low as 2 US Dollars including shipping. I say go for it. Just buy four to six different type of converters and start testing.

I heard some cheaper converters can fry the drive connectors. Be careful.

Buy a Seagate, 500GB to 2TB in size as it does not matter, and modefy it's size with Seatools.

computergeek92 wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Converters are cheap. Really cheap.
They can be bought as low as 2 US Dollars including shipping. I say go for it. Just buy four to six different type of converters and start testing.

I heard some cheaper converters can fry the drive connectors. Be careful.

True... Allways do a visible inspection of any such china-ware.
And test it in a less desireable machine. Pretty much what can be done.
What happens then, happens. Though I never had issues my self.

only ever had one that had issues, a loose solder joint, but it just caught the adapter on fire nothing else 🤣

Those large parallel ATA drives are actually bridged SATA drives. The board should have a bridge chip on it. True parallel ATA drives likely didn't see much past 250-300GB in size. Western Digital kept an 80GB PATA drive in production for a long time, likely for compatibility applications. True PATA interface plus under the 28-bit LBA limit for size. That drive might have had the 8.4GB limit jumper on it too.

EDIT: That WD Green 1TB drive is likely a fake. WD never made them with PATA interfaces, buyer beware.

I literally have a PILE of 320gb sata drives with ide/sata converters. They work just fine in everything i've ever used. Bios limits notwithstanding, they worked fine even on 386 machines. It was slightly humorous to see the bios limit the drive to 8gb, but still, it worked. It surprises me to see >500gb ide drives. I was always under the impression they abruptly stopped at 500gb.

There is no real reason to make ide drives anymore.

Also, speaking of cheap converters, the ones I have, the power connectors are BACKWARDS from what would seem logical. I've fried TWO drives and adapters doing this.

You can get something like a FastTrak SX-4000 and RAID-5 together four 300-400 GB PATA drives for a ~1 TB array.

The RocketRAID 454 will let you do this with up to 8 drives.