IDE to SATA Adapter, anyone have exeperience?

[ProPhotoCS3]

Just bought a new motherboard with only one IDE slot. I am running two IDE optical drives with an IDE hard drive so I am short one slot on my motherboard. Looking at getting a IDE to SATA adapter for my hard drive. Does anyone have experience with doing this and can recommend an adapter?

 

[brokencase]

I recently purchased this ide/sata adapter:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5458

This converter board is based on a Sunplus "satalink" chip.

I have tested it with a variety of older 2.5" and 3.5" IDE drives that I had laying around and they all seem to work just fine with it. I benchmarked a 2.5" 20gb drive and the performance was on par with what I recalled for that drive. I have not tested it on a cd or dvd drive.

However, I can't seem to get it to work with my WD 200gb ide drive I have presently in my system (and for which I purchased this for). I don't believe this is a problem with the converter, I think that I need to reset the CMOS on the motherboard so it re-detects all drives fresh.

It is my understanding that these converters will have some amount of negative impact on perfomance and they are only a temporary "hold over" solution.

 

[CallMeJoe]

I have a Seagate IDE HDD I'm running on the aBit "Serillel" adapter I got with one of my NF7-S motherboards; it works fine, and doesn't seem to adversely affect performance.

brokencase: FWIW, back when the NF7-Ss were new, quite a few members on the aBit forum reported problems with the WD HDDs and the Serillel adapters. It's been so long I don't remember any details, and it may have nothing in common with your adapter problems, but you might find that some of the senior members of that board could help you out.

 

[DarkRogue]

I've used the aBit Serillel IDE>SATA adapter as well, and all I can say is it worked for me without any problems.
Was adding new drives to my PC and my mobo (Asus A7N8X Deluxe) ran out of IDE ports, but had 2 SATA (back when I bought it SATA was new and barely supported lol.)
Plugged it into my WD 120GB drive and it worked fine.

 

[PCTC2]

I have this Rosewill adapter that's OoS @ newegg, but I've used it on my WD 120GB, and 2 separate optical drives and they've all worked.

 

[ProPhotoCS3]

Is it better just to use a pci ide raid card controller?