Sata to IDE, IDE to Sata?

AssaTM · 2 Jan 2008 at 01:16

I searched the faq and didnt quite inspect every bit of it, so apologises if this has been answered, but could a SATA Hard Drive work with an IDE converter, and vica versa? because I see the Asrock AGP Mobo mentions Sata conections, but no mention of IDE, but if you have IDE hard drives then that mobo becomes a bit useless? or can you convert the two and it wont do anything? perhaps a performance hit or? Many Thanks to whoever can help

gazfocus · 2 Jan 2008 at 01:22

Hi. You can get a converter that plugs into your IDE hard drive and it converts to a SATA connection. I can't post a link because it's a competitor but if you google IDE to SATA Converter, it's within the first 3 results.

It's a bit pricey though so depending on the size of your Hard Drive, it might be worth selling your current one on ebay and buying a SATA one

Skyboat · 2 Jan 2008 at 02:19

Do you mean this ASRock mobo? If yes, you can connect up to 2 IDE drives and 2 SATAII drives.

Pretty much every motherboard you can still buy has at the very least 1 IDE connector (allowing 2 IDE/PATA devices connected) alongside SATA/SATAII support.

AssaTM · 2 Jan 2008 at 04:17

Yeh I meant that one, I must have skipped over the IDE part, it is late afterall!

, but Many Thanks to both of you