SATA Hard Drives

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Hey guys, I have (9) 160GB SATA hard drives just laying around. Are there any newer games out there that use SATA instead of IDE? I know there are IDE to SATA adapters you can use, but I don't know if people are interested in doing that. I may post them in the "For Sale" forum if there is a use for them. They are brand new drives never used I've just had them stashed forever.

Let me know... thanks!
 
Hey guys, I have (9) 160GB SATA hard drives just laying around. Are there any newer games out there that use SATA instead of IDE? I know there are IDE to SATA adapters you can use, but I don't know if people are interested in doing that. I may post them in the "For Sale" forum if there is a use for them. They are brand new drives never used I've just had them stashed forever.

Let me know... thanks!

From what I recall, Taito Type X games use SATA drives. Some others from roughly the same era onwards use them as well, but I'm not really remembering specifics on this one.

Quite honestly, the drives are worth about $10-$15 a pop. I'd recommend saving the headache of trying to sell them and just donate them to your local school district, library, the Red Cross, etc.

SATA to SD card adapters and multi-terabyte drives are so cheap that anything that size just doesn't have any real value these days. You might get lucky and run across someone with that one mission-critical device that absolutely will not boot anything other than your 160GB drives... But there's scores of them, new and unused, on eBay.
 
Yea, I was only going to sell them for what it will cost me to ship them. I know there are folks that have games they want to keep as original as possible so I was just curious if any games took them... and it looks like some do. I'll post them and see if anyone wants them.

Thanks guys!
 
I'd be down for at least on HD if not two. So in order to get them to work with BBHP, what else besides installing do you have to do? And what are the USB security things for, and where do I get those?

Thanks
 
I desperately need a new one for my computer sometime, but as for games, I'm not sure.

Have SATA2 or SATA3 on your motherboard? Running Windows 7 or newer? Skip the SATA hard drive and go directly to SSD. Use Macrium Reflect Free Edition to clone your existing hard drive to the new SSD (and enable TRIM support while it's at it). Thank me later.
 
Have SATA2 or SATA3 on your motherboard? Running Windows 7 or newer? Skip the SATA hard drive and go directly to SSD. Use Macrium Reflect Free Edition to clone your existing hard drive to the new SSD (and enable TRIM support while it's at it). Thank me later.

Yeah, I'm already up to speed with SSDs and how great they are and that was my next step... the only problem is I'm spending all of my money on my old machines instead of my newer machine. :D (computer)

I'm rocking a cool gaming rig that's getting a little outdated now, but considering most of my gaming nowadays is testing stuff in MAME, I can't complain about falling behind. :p
 
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