First post, by EPoX
hey guys
i just wanted to know what are the cheap alternatives that you are using today to avoid Old Hard disk drives ( HDD from the 90s are difficult to find and get broken easly after so many years, they are also super noisy as hell). I have seen sometimes old HDD that after powering them after many years they tend to work and a couple minutes after they crash and corrupt everything.
1) im using an IDE to compact flash card adapter, but i noticed some corruption in one folder (no idea why it happened) other than that it was ok and detected the partition in the bios.its good if you happen to have many CF cards around. take them out. read them on another pc with a CF usb reader and transfer data.
2) i bought online some SATA2 IDE adapters, with the idea to connect a sata hard drive into an ide interface with an ide cable ( i have not tried that yet since im NOt sure how should i format for examble a 250gb drive in order for a 486 pc to get it recognized or format a 250gb drive as a 1GB partition for DOS and the bios to recognize it.
3) SD card adapter to ide, i noticed some of you bought that black SD card to IDE PCB adapter, never bought one but im interested.
just wondering what you are using?
i think if old HHD die maybe a newer HDD to make just a little noise would be better than having a zero noise 486 with an sd card.
please share your ecperiences!