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Jay Bee

Jay Bee

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Thinking of upgrading but not sure about one thing, all the boards that I am looking at are sata H/D connection is there a adapter to put on the motherboard to allow me to use my existing ide drives.

Thanks
 
Some boards have IDE channels, some don't. There are adapters - or at least there used to be. But they end up costing too much and being a PITA. Cheaper to replace the drives than use em.
 
My new board only has one ide channel so i got a couple of adapters at auction.

So far i have managed to get it to work with my dvd drive but not the hard drive.

Worth it though for £2.50 a pop :)
 
You can get adapters, the Abit Serielle 2 was one such. However I'd personally go with an IDE controller card if you've got any more than a couple of IDE drives as it is likely to be more reliable and easier to use.
 
I remember the adapters being 20 quid. But as the poster 2 above says, he was able to get them second hand cheap. If that's the case then go for it, nothing to lose.
 
Before i upgrade to SATA I used to run 2 IDE disk in RAID 0 with Abit Serielle 2 and was happy with the speed until i decided to get some cheap SATA drive in the B-grade section and i realize that even 1 250Gb disk is faster than my PATA RAID.So its really worth it to get a native SATA drive now if your board supports it.
 
semi-pro waster said:
You can get adapters, the Abit Serielle 2 was one such. However I'd personally go with an IDE controller card if you've got any more than a couple of IDE drives as it is likely to be more reliable and easier to use.
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Only trouble being, sometimes you cant boot from these cards. I had a SATA controller in a server years ago that had this problem.

The cards are cheap though so might be worth taking the gamble. Even if you cant boot off it, you could always buy a SATA drive for the OS and carry on using the IDE drives. To be honest though, HDDs are so cheap these days you could just replace your current ones.
 
What to do with the old drives though? I have 6x 160GB & 2x 200 that I have just (will be this week) replacing with a 1.5TB SATA beast. the 2x 200 are going in IDE -> USB enclosures I have here, but the 6x160?

Even the most basic IDE -> USB enclosures are like 10-15 quid or so... if they were a fiver then it migh be worth it. i.e for 30-40 quid I could hook them up, but at 10 quid an enclosure, I'd surely be better just getting a 500GB sata disc for less.
 
Just gave my adapter a try on a different drive and that one seems to like it :)

Unfortunately its the boot drive and there is a speed drop due to the interface but it will do till the RMA seagate sata gets sorted.

Worth spending £2.50 even if its for an old smallish drive as i wasnt wanting to upgrade the hard drives just the motherboard.
 
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