SATA to IDE convertors

munge · 27 Jul 2006 at 00:05

Do these work with all SATA drives and all motherboards? Seem to recall getting a Serrilel (sp?) adaptor thingy with some board a while ago and have a friend who needs a new hard drive and would rather buy a SATA and convert it to IDE so can upgrade more easily.

Is this a sensible option? Would it work? Or is it a waste of time?

Ta...

fonzee · 27 Jul 2006 at 01:22

should work fine iirc

SiriusB · 27 Jul 2006 at 02:21

I suspect you will lose some data transfer performance, but I doubt they will notice considering they don't appear to have used SATA before

SiriusB

cobxx · 27 Jul 2006 at 10:27

Yep, I think I've got one of those serrrial or however you spell it adapters in an NF7-S. Not much point unless you just wanna free up some IDE room and/or use pretty sata cables! They do work fine in most cases, just don't expect any performance increase.