IDE to SATA Converter

[hotlips69]

I'm about to upgrade my old system to one of the new Nforce590 SLI mobos with Raptor 150GB etc...

My question relates to the fact that I've got a Western Digital 250GB IDE PATA drive full of purely data files that I want to connect to the new mobo, which only has one IDE connector (I'm going to use this for my DVD & CD drives) and I understand that I'm going to need an IDE to SATA converter.

I've had a good look through ebay and via google and there seems to be several similar small devices for sale, but I wanted to know if anyone has any experience with this type of device, good or bad?

I read a review which gives the impression that performance will IMPROVE if you connect an old IDE to a SATA connector!

http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/ide-sata/

Comments please?

 

[SynthDude2001]

I've been using a few old Abit ones for a few of my IDE hard drives for a while now...they work just fine, I havent noticed any difference in performance either way.

 

[boyRacer]

I've had a couple of the Syba ones... and they've been problem free.

As far as performance, a couple of sites say you might eat less cpu cycles or whatever but it's nothing noticeable.

I remember when Seagate had the only true SATA drive out there and everyone else was using bridge, i think this is basically the same thing.

 

[corkyg]

Performance difference is not readily apparent in normal day-to-day operations. As far as most users go, a converted PATA to SATA is just another drive on a different controller.

 

[hotlips69]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I've been using a few old Abit ones for a few of my IDE hard drives for a while now...they work just fine, I havent noticed any difference in performance either way.

I didn't know that Abit made this converter?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: hotlips69

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I've been using a few old Abit ones for a few of my IDE hard drives for a while now...they work just fine, I havent noticed any difference in performance either way.

I didn't know that Abit made this converter?

I don't know if they ever sold them by themselves or if they even still make them. I got them with a motherboard a few years back...

 

[EatSpam]

Typically those work just fine. I had good luck with the Highpoint RocketRAID converters.

Like others have said, most of the original "SATA" drives were nothing more than PATA drives with the SATA-PATA converters built in to the drive's board. And, many of the original SATA cards were the same - PATA controller with converter chips.

 

[AkumaX]

Abit made Serillel2 one that generally works

I think mine's defective though I keep getting BAD_POOL_CALLER and stuff with it