>found a stash of old DVDs
>10 to 20 years old
>curios what I put on them
>scrapped my DVD years ago
>find a couple old internal DVD burners
>both are IDE
>kek what
>I got no compatible cables left
>sad.jpeg
>order an IDE to USB like pic related
>expect it not to work
>actually be 98% certain it won't work
>plug it into internal power
>plug in the IDE and connect the USB on the other end
>it works flawlessly
>find some absurdly low quality tv shows, movies, MTV video clips
>find a couple discs with programs from 17 years ago, including cracks and shit
>feels good man

Everything went better than expected. Thanks for reading my blog.

>>106152781 (OP)
>plug in the IDE and connect the USB on the other end
you did good anon, fine job.

>>106152802
kek

zoomzooms don't know IDE

i wish i had one of these, i have a couple ancient drives i wanna look at

even sata to ide would be fine for me

>>106153684
it's 10 bucks

>>106152828
Based adapter. If only it could do more than 30mb\s

>>106153840
Are there devices from the IDE era that can exceed that? Can IDE exceed that?

>>106153840
Enough to transfer a DVD in a couple of minutes

>>106153701
i dont like ordering online and my local computer guy never has any

>shitty zoomer thread full of retarded posts
tiring

>>106155273
proofs?

>>106152781 (OP)
You probably got lucky in the Chinesium lottery
These adapters are usually complete garbage. For some drives they don't even work, and for some they work but only barely, with 10 MB/s speeds and frequent disconnections
It wasn't only me who got unlucky with a defective unit, handled quite a few of these fuckers in my job, they were all shit

>>106153862
Maybe but just a bit
I remember getting up to 60 MB/s with late IDE drives and high quality cables on premium motherboards.

>>106156843
I am curious to know if IDE RAID was/is a thing and if there was standards for increased bandwidth; something in between perhaps. I wasn't blessed to be able to experiment or experience hardware to its fullest back in the day.

>>106156961
>I am curious to know if IDE RAID was/is a thing
Yes it was. There were plenty of hardware IDE RAID controller cards on the market, and in the 2000s some high-end motherboards also offered IDE RAID support. One of my motherboards actually had it. I never actually tried IDE RAID though.

>>106152781 (OP)
You won

>>106156843
>You probably got lucky in the Chinesium lottery


This, literally 1 in 10 000 chance or even worse

>>106157838
lel

>>106156961
I had this piece of shit motherboard with an IDE RAID controller built in. By the time I retired the board only a single RAM slot remained working, but the RAID0 volume was fast as shit. It would boot Windows 2000 in 30 seconds.
Raid0 was common on higher end desktops in that era because HDDs were so painfully slow.