IDE or SATA?

EagleOC · 13 Apr 2006 at 21:24

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As well as upgrading some stuff I've been thinking about the way I connect my hard drives (Maxtor DMax9's). The motherboard came with SATA 133/150 connectors but, being used to IDE, I just connected them on the IDE cables. Would I see a massive increase if I attached them with SATA?

Cheers.

Ladforce · 13 Apr 2006 at 22:36

sata ports cant be used on ide harddrives.

EagleOC · 13 Apr 2006 at 22:40

I'll get me coat...

Ladforce · 13 Apr 2006 at 23:05

hehe

Stellios · 13 Apr 2006 at 23:45

How you pulled off using IDE on a SATA drive ill never know, but yes you should see an improvement going to SATA.

Youve either bought the IDE drive and not the SATA one, or youve bought some dodgy concoction ive never seem before.

EagleOC · 13 Apr 2006 at 23:51

The mobo has SATA - the drives don't.

I think...

thor · 14 Apr 2006 at 00:14

It is possible to connect IDE drives to SATA ports with the use of an adaptor, but the performance difference simply isn't worth it. As far as I'm aware, HDD's have yet to make full use of ATA133, never mind the extra bandwidth offered by SATA.

h2ocooler · 14 Apr 2006 at 00:25

Think i saw somewhere drives that had both IDE & SATA on them, best of both worlds, but seriously SATA every time.

WJA96 · 14 Apr 2006 at 06:43

All ATA drives are IDE. The difference between a parallel ATA drive and a serial ATA drive is how the data is transferred. That's all. Abit, ASUS and MSI have all at one time or another supplied PATA to SATA convertors. The early SATA drives were PATA with a dongle on them.

It's perfectly possible to connect a PATA drive to a SATA connector if you have the right cable/dongle. eg . Abit Serillel .