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Evergreen CF-to-IDE adaptor: Boot like a banshee

Crave It's a Compact Flash (CF)-to-IDE adaptor. CF is the removable memory used by some digital cameras and IDE is the very fast interface most computers use to communicate with internal hard-disk drives. In theory, you could install a light OS like...

Tags: ide, boot, adaptor, compact flash

11 October 2006, 12:00

Photos: Popcorn Hour B-110 DIY media motherboard

Crave To this end, the B-110 board can accommodate two SATA drives, has a single IDE channel and four USB connectors. You get power, SATA and IDE cables included in the box. Here you can see the SATA and IDE connectors.

13 August 2008, 11:00

Photos: Popcorn Hour A-110 does media streaming even better

Crave Instead of IDE, this version of the Popcorn Hour accepts an SATA hard drive, which is good news if you're one of the few people in the cosmos who doesn't own any IDE drives. When we first got our hands on the Popcorn Hour A-100 we were salivating...

12 August 2008, 13:04

Top ten obsolete ports

Crave It was everything IDE wasn't: fast, stable and reliable, plus it offered RAID functionality, which wasn't really practical with early IDE drives. While everyone was struggling to load Windows 3.11 off a crazy-slow IDE 5,200rpm drive, Mac users were...

25 March 2008, 11:02

Hands on: LG GBW-H10N 4x Blu-ray player

Crave It slipped into a vacant 5.25-inch drive bay, connected to the motherboard via an IDE cable and Bob became our high-capacity uncle within a matter of minutes. Blu-ray is beginning to win Crave over at the expense of its cheaper rival, HD DVD.

Tags: lg electronics, ray, dvds, disc

23 November 2006, 11:48

DVICO TViX HD M-6500A: Media streaming wootage

Crave The main difference is that the 6500 accepts SATA drives, whereas the A-100 only took IDE. Alright, we admit it, we're more obsessed with media streamers than is strictly healthy. But can you really blame us?

25 June 2008, 12:30

Eco-friendly PCs: An inconvenient upgrade path

Crave Solid-state drive If you've still got any money left, we recommend swapping your standard IDE hard drive with a solid-state drive (SSD). See all that lightning, thunder and flooding? That's global warming in action, we tell you.

Tags: hard drive, film, cpu, processor

3 July 2007, 10:50

Photos: Popcorn Hour A-100 does media streaming right

Crave Installing a hard drive is no bother at all: the top of the A-100 is secured by thumbscrews and an IDE drive will simply slide into the built-in connector, and is secured by screws on the underside of the machine.

2 June 2008, 12:01