The DriveWire universal hard-drive adapter provides a USB connection to 2.5- or 3.5-in. IDE (integrated-drive-electronics) or SATA (serial-advanced-technology-attachment) drives. The adapter comes ...

Today's compact hard drives have custom interfaces. Integrated drive electronics (IDE) and other such interfaces simply have too many pins to be practical. As for serial ATA, it's too new and a bit ...