Adapters?

[Noobie09]

Hello all,

after hours of trawling over google, i am unable to find what i am after.

I want to find a

1.8" 44pin IDE ( female) to sata adapter.

I have found one

http://www.uxcell.com/inch-ide-female-sata-female-adapter-converter-p-30793.html

But it is at right angles. I want to put it in a note book.

So i need it to be flat.


ANY Ideas???

 

[MikeJRamsey]

Perhaps this
http://sewelldirect.com/SATA-to-IDE-Converter.asp

or this
http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/serial-ata-ide-converter.htm

 

[Noobie09]

thanks mike,

But it doesnt look like either of those are for 1.8" ide.

 

[MikeJRamsey]

thanks mike,

But it doesn't look like either of those are for 1.8" ide.

Sorry about that. I missed that nuance. A couple of options come to mind.

1. Look for a 1.8" 44-pin to 2.5" 40 pin IDE adapter. Then you could use a conventional IDE to SATA adapter.
2. Look for a 1.8 female to 1.8 female adapter. Then you could use a male 1.8 to SATA adapter.

You haven't told us the details.
a. The manufacture/model drive you are trying to attach. Is it a SATA drive or a 1.8" IDE drive? Hitachi and Toshiba have unique connector types.
b. The mobo connection type you are targeting.

 

[Noobie09]

the details ,

Well,
1.I bought a hp client notebook (by mistake)

2. Opened the HDD storage area, and found an Apacer 1gb module( flash or ssd i cant tell)

3. the connector for the module is 1.8" 44pin ide.

4. I would like to put a bigger hdd in so i can install an OS and use for simple word processing.

5. i thought that a sata drive would be easier to find. But after looking on the net it seems zif drives might be my soultion.

hope these details help

 

[MikeJRamsey]

the details ,

Well,
1.I bought a hp client notebook (by mistake)

2. Opened the HDD storage area, and found an Apacer 1gb module( flash or ssd i cant tell)

3. the connector for the module is 1.8" 44pin ide.

4. I would like to put a bigger hdd in so i can install an OS and use for simple word processing.

5. i thought that a sata drive would be easier to find. But after looking on the net it seems zif drives might be my soultion.

hope these details help

Well, if a little is bad maybe more is good enough. http://usa.apacer.com/us/products/ATA_Flash_Drive_%28AFD%29_specs.htm
The 1.8" form factor comes in a 32GB size.

SATA may be asking too much. This is another possibility: http://www.directron.com/fhd32gc18m.html

I also ran across this: http://www.cooldrives.com/ide-ata-adapter-sata-hard-drive-adapter.html

A HDD will take more power than the SSD. Is this an internal drive? If you have a USB 2.0 port you could work an external SATA drive through the USB port and use an enclosure to hold and power the drive using a separate AC adapter. You could then leave the existing SSD alone.

 

[Noobie09]

Thankyou, mike

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

It will be an internal drive.

looking at the cool drive adapter. the 2.5"and the 1.8" are on the came side.
Does that mean that both have the same pin separation. So i could use a 2.5" drive instead?

 

[MikeJRamsey]

Thankyou, mike

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

It will be an internal drive.

looking at the cool drive adapter. the 2.5"and the 1.8" are on the came side.
Does that mean that both have the same pin separation. So i could use a 2.5" drive instead?

You are welcome.

According to X3T13/2008D Revision 7b, in the section talking about the 44-pin ATA-3 small form factor connector,

"The 50-pin connector that has been widely adopted across industry for SFF devices is a low density 2 mm
connector which has no shroud on the plug which is mounted on the device. A number of suppliers provide
intermatable components."

http://www.t10.org/t13/project/d2008r7b-ATA-3.pdf

This is why your 1.8" 44-pin should be connectable to the cool drive adapter. I emphasize should.

You are getting out of my direct experience so I hesitate to say any more.