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2 Hardrives to USB cables

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emvella

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Dec 9, 2020
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Hi I have 2 different hardrives as these:

1 Samsung SP0802N - 80GB 7.2K RPM 2MB Cache Ultra ATA-133 SpinPoint P80 3.5" Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
2 Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB SATA/300 7200RPM 8MB Hard Drive

Please which cables do I need to transfer all data to a new computer? I think I need 2 different cables for each one!
 
One is a SATA hard drive and one is an IDE hard drive. So any newer computer would have the SATA connection inside and SATA power as well. You don't have to buy anything, just plug it in and it will be a slave drive and you can browse it and pick off the data.

Newer computers don't have the ATA connector, so you buy an adapter such as below (USB to IDE adapter).

Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter
 
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