ide to sata converter

is it ok to use this one? i need a comment on this.. thanks

 

i remember my Abit motherboard came with one of these 3 years ago...

there is no harm in using it, as long as you can get it working. you may need to install an SATA driver so it can interface with windows, but I'm not sure.

they work just fine, but you will not get any benefits of SATA (besides using the thin SATA cable) since it is still an ATA100 or ATA133 IDE hard drive, and not an SATA150 drive.

 

so you that if i use this converter theres no changes in speed?

 

no, because it's the same HDD controller. and IMO you will only notice a performance difference from IDE 2 SATA in synthetic benchmarks anyway ... so the only real benefit is the smaller cord ... that is untill sata300+600 come out

 

you don't notice a difference in speeds?

i've noticed HUGE differences, mainly in transfer times from hard drive to hard drive. A friend of mine does video editing and has gigs upon gigs of video. on a standard IDE hard drive, it would take 45minutes to an hour to transfer 30GB of video to a backup hard drive. Once we got him an SATA drive, the transfer time onto the SATA drive was under 20 minutes. that was enough proof for me

 

hmm ... well .. I transferred about 100gigs of varies stuff(with ide) and it took about 2-3 hours ... but even if it were to be faster it would've still bottlenecked through the 100Mbps network ... i suppose if you had giganet and in your case the same system and two sata drives

i just benchmarked my drives(WD800JB vs WD800JD) w/ aida32 and there was only a slight performance boost not quite worth the price of replacing ... (1st number is sata second is ide)

linear read 57.9MB/s 54.9MB/s
quick linear read 54.6 MB/s 52.8 MB/s
random read 49.0 MB/s 45.4 MB/s
buffered read 102.6 MB/s 71.7 MB/s
average access(seek time) 14.9ms 14.8ms

 

What he's talking about is using an IDE drive and a SATA converter to adapt the drive to SATA.

The only reason for using one of these, is if you have SATA drives and want to inclue an IDE drive. If the rest of your system is IDE, stay with IDE. If you plan on switching to SATA and want to use an adapter until all your hardware is SATA, you shouldn't have a problem as long as you have all the drivers you need for it.

I do not believe a SATA adapter will make your IDE any faster though.

 

my understanding was that the reason SATAs are faster was because of the controller not the drive itself(y/n?). So wouldn't you see a little improvement in using a converter?

 

I honestly can't answer that. I do know that a sata drive running on a sata connection is faster than an ide drive on an ide connection, but I'm not sure if an IDE drive would be any faster with a SATA adapter.

You may be right.

 

it's the drive used WITH the controller that gives SATA the performance increase. but no, a standard PATA drive will not have any performance gain using an SATA adapter.

haha Abit called it a "Sirallel adapter" basically meaning its still a parallel ata drive, with a serial interface.