[DreamcastChannel] is one of them, and put together a nifty plug-and-play hard drive mod. The mod is based on earlier work, which consisted of manually soldering the 44 lines of an IDE cable on to ...

An earlier expansion card that plugged into a PC and contained the connection for up to four IDE hard disks. It generally also provided controllers for two floppy disks, two serial, one parallel ...

It also requires the purchase of an expensive SCSI adapter. As a result, IDE hard-drive technology has dominated the PC hard-drive industry since then, and it has yet to be displaced. In fact ...

Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA and — lately — NVME connectors. But a standard predating all of this ...