ide to sata adapters..

skanky

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if i use a ide to sata adapter, will i need to install sata drivers when installing windows etc?

also are there any downsides/upsides to letting your ide drive use a sata port instead of ide?

the reason i ask is that i have a new mobo (asus p5b) coming and it only has a single dual channel ide port, and i have 2 hdds and a dvdrw on ide..

thanks.
 
Yes you will have to download the drivers to use the drive

Downsides - it makes your drive a bit longer which may be a problem if you have a small case - also, I had to reactivate windows which caused me some annoyance since I didn't actually change any components, just the way one was connected to the mobo grrrrr
 
No but you will be using the sata ports on your motherboard so you need to have the correct sata controller driver downloaded for that

I didn't notice any performance differences at all either favourable or non

The best bit about sata drives is the cable management aspect

You could always get a pci ide controller card if you wanted to have more ide drives...
 
skanky said:
but if its an ide drive, there wont be any sata drivers surely?
any performance issues?
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You're not getting drivers for the hard drive, you're getting drivers for the SATA chipset.
 
Depends on the mobo. I didnt need drivers for installing windows on with either my previous AM2 board or my DS4.

You may need them if you run 2 drives in RAID tho
 
you dont need to install SATA chipset drivers

most SATA chipsets have the ability to emulate SATA drives as IDE drives in windows

thus requiring no installation of drivers during installation.

its in the BIOS options under SATA

it may not say emulate, but it will say detect as or something like that. other options are usually RAID or AHCI
 
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