Is there such a thing as an 3.5" IDE drive enclosure with an eSATA interface?

September 14, 2008 5:36 PM

Is there such a thing as a 3.5" IDE drive enclosure with an eSATA interface?

My DVR (Cablevision Scientific Atlanta) has an eSATA port that can be used to expand the recording time (storage space).

I have several 3.5" old IDE drives laying around and want to hook one of these up to the DVR. Is there an enclosure for a PATA drive that has an eSATA interface?

I know that there are drives that have eSATA/USB interfaces, but the ones I have seen are limited to using the eSATA interface only with a SATA drive.

Alternatively, is there something that can convert a USB/Firewire device to eSATA?

posted by kenliu to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: Something like this?
posted by sycophant at 5:45 PM on September 14, 2008

Before you go and buy an enclosure, are you sure the ports are actually activated and working? I know my Time Warner Scientific Atlanta boxes had firewire and/or SATA ports for a long time but they were next to useless because they were disabled by the software running on the box.
posted by Venadium at 5:45 PM on September 14, 2008

Response by poster: I think the manual indicated that this feature is active...will have to double check.
posted by kenliu at 9:40 PM on September 15, 2008

Response by poster: @sycophant

That's it! Thanks. Now find me one for $20 :)
posted by kenliu at 9:45 PM on September 15, 2008