IDE to SATA converter

Craig321

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi,

I think my first SATA port might be on it's way out soon - the second SATA port is already broken which I tried to get repaired but it came back to me exactly as I returned it, so I gave up on that.

Anyway, I'm hoping this board will hold out until I can get together some money for a C2D setup.

If it did break I could get an IDE to SATA converter and use one of my IDE ports for my hard drive...

Would the hard drive perform at IDE speeds? Or would it be slower because of the converter?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
In the past I've seen a few devices that allowed you to attach a PATA drive onto a SATA controller.
However I've never actually seen anything that would allow you to attach a SATA device onto a PATA controller.
 
stoofa said:
In the past I've seen a few devices that allowed you to attach a PATA drive onto a SATA controller.
However I've never actually seen anything that would allow you to attach a SATA device onto a PATA controller.
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Devices for connecting SATA to PATA controllers do exist but they're far rarer than the other way round. I've only seen them for auction.
 
In theory yes but I would want to confirm that you could boot from a disk attached to the card, some of the cheap ones don't support the INT13 bootable stuff.

You would also be limited by the speed of the PCI bus although for a single drive this shouldn't be an issue unless you've got other stuff sharing the bus - ethernet whether it be onboard or not, sound cards etc.
 
rpstewart said:
In theory yes but I would want to confirm that you could boot from a disk attached to the card, some of the cheap ones don't support the INT13 bootable stuff.

You would also be limited by the speed of the PCI bus although for a single drive this shouldn't be an issue unless you've got other stuff sharing the bus - ethernet whether it be onboard or not, sound cards etc.
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I have an ethernet card connected to PCI as well - this motherboard also came with broken onboard NIC :(... would that slow it down?
 
The PCI bus has a maximum bandwidth of 133Mb/s which is shared among all the connected devices so if you're using the devices simultaneously they won't get the whole of the available bandwidth to themselves. In most cases though a single HDD won't be able to saturate the PCI bus.
 
rpstewart said:
The PCI bus has a maximum bandwidth of 133Mb/s which is shared among all the connected devices so if you're using the devices simultaneously they won't get the whole of the available bandwidth to themselves. In most cases though a single HDD won't be able to saturate the PCI bus.
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Hmm, so am I right in saying if I was copying something over the network and using quite a bit of power through the PCI ethernet card then it'd slow the hard drive down?
 
Potentially but it's unlikely. A decent HDD can shift about 75Mb/s in sustained transfers, however the burst speed can be well over that so it might feel slightly slower (not much mind). If your sound is attached to the PCI bus then you might see some glitches in that if the PCI bus is congested.
 
rpstewart said:
Potentially but it's unlikely. A decent HDD can shift about 75Mb/s in sustained transfers, however the burst speed can be well over that so it might feel slightly slower (not much mind). If your sound is attached to the PCI bus then you might see some glitches in that if the PCI bus is congested.
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Hmm, if the PCI bus is shared then I might be best off getting a converter then?

My hard drive transfers at roughly 60mb/s - then if I was also transferring a file over the network then I'd start to see stuff slow down?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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