IDE, Sata and stuff

allllec

allllec

allllec

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Right guys, currently i have 3x IDE devices, however when i get my next mobo (775 board, conroe chip and what not) its probably only gonna have 1x ide channel, and i was woundering the cheapest way to basicly, replace either one of my current ide devices for a sata version. or if theres a Ide > sata adaptor!!?! (lol you never know) or if just getting an ide controller card would be cheapest

Currently i have

80gig Maxtor
200gig Maxtor
Samsung DVD Rom

so whats the verdict? what i need is the cheapest option!
 
An 80gig SATA hard drive can be bought for next to nothing these days so that would probably be your best bet. Though saying that you could probably spend just that little more and replace the 200 gig hard drive:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD) = £54

At the moment I would keep your IDE slots for your optical drives, though don't forget you can set one to master and a hard drive to slave ensuring you only have to replace one of your three drives. However I would do away with both your old hard drives and get two new sata ones. They'd run faster and I think you can get both with 16mb of cache.
 
if i was to get that Samsung sata drive, would i have problems with using it as my one and only drive? i dont want to have to be ******* about with funny drivers and crap just to get windows boot disks to work and stuff.


as for the sata harddrives, they are tbh my goal anyway, but initialy im gonna keep my IDE ones i think.
 
Why not just get.. Highpoint Rocket133 1-Port ATA Host Adaptor (CC-015-HP) At just: £13.95 (£16.39 Including VAT at 17.5%) it may be the cheapest route until needing to change hdd's at a later stage.
 
If you get a board based on the 975 rather than the 965 chipset you'd be able to run all 3 of your IDE devices off it anyway.
 
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