Low-profile IDE to SATA converter

[MotionMan]

I am looking for a low-profile (to fit in an enclosure) IDE to SATA converter in the U.S. similar to these:

Links anyone?

MotionMan

 

[notposting]

http://www.colordrives.com/serial-ata-sata-to-ide-100-133-converter-adapter.html

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

How much would that bottleneck a SATA SSD drive like an OCZ Vertex 100g LE?

I might need one of those to maintain all 6 of the Intel south-bridge for a RAID-1 Hot Swap config.

 

[MotionMan]

http://www.colordrives.com/serial-ata-sata-to-ide-100-133-converter-adapter.html

This looks promising. It only talks about adapting IDE devices to work with SATA connections. I am actually doing the reverse: Using a SATA drive in an old IDE enclosure.

It should still work, though, right?

MotionMan

 

[Ig]

http://www.addonics.com/products/IO/adsaide.asp
http://www.cooldrives.com/sata-to-ide.html

Using a sata drive on an IDE controller would limit it to 133MB/s (theo. max) if it's ATA/133 and 100MB/s if it's ATA/100.

 

[MotionMan]

http://www.addonics.com/products/IO/adsaide.asp
http://www.cooldrives.com/sata-to-ide.html

Using a sata drive on an IDE controller would limit it to 133MB/s (theo. max) if it's ATA/133 and 100MB/s if it's ATA/100.

Yeah, but my choices are either buy a new IDE drive for $50+ or an adapter for a perfectly good drive I already have for <$20.

MotionMan

 

[RU482]

How much would that bottleneck a SATA SSD drive like an OCZ Vertex 100g LE?

I might need one of those to maintain all 6 of the Intel south-bridge for a RAID-1 Hot Swap config.

It's going to cap it at the ideal IDE bus speed. Could be 66MBPS, could be 100MBPS, could be 133MBPS....plus overhead which is likely 10-20&#37; in reality

test and let us know!!
Last one I tested defaulted to the 66MBPS speed...minus bus overhead resulted in 57MBPS max read/write speeds ...granted this was a menlow(Atom) platform

 

[RebateMonger]

Yeah, but my choices are either buy a new IDE drive for $50+ or an adapter for a perfectly good drive I already have for <$20.

You didn't mention the option of getting a new enclosure for your SATA drive. They start at $20, although, obviously, all enclosures aren't equal. I don't plan on buying any more "enclosures" because the external SATA docks work great for me, are cheap now, don't have cooling issues, and you only need one to potentially accomodate dozens of disks.

SATA disk external enclosures at Newegg.com:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...e=&amp;srchInDesc=

You'd be sure it would work and you can use the eSATA interface if you have an eSATA motherboard port or a SATA disk controller card.

 

[MotionMan]

Sorry, but I'm not understanding what you are trying to accomplish. Do you have an IDE drive you want to use in a SATA enclosure? Or do you have a SATA drive you want to use in an IDE enclosure?

Also, you didn't mention the option of getting a new enclosure for whichever type of drive you have.

I have a SATA drive and an IDE enclosure. I do not want to get a new enclosure (I have my reasons).

MotionMan

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

It's going to cap it at the ideal IDE bus speed. Could be 66MBPS, could be 100MBPS, could be 133MBPS....plus overhead which is likely 10-20% in reality

test and let us know!!
Last one I tested defaulted to the 66MBPS speed...minus bus overhead resulted in 57MBPS max read/write speeds ...granted this was a menlow(Atom) platform

Wow, that would really choke the crap out of it, hmmm. I do have an extra onboard SIL controller that supports 4 more SATA ports but I don't think they are hot swappable.

 

[RebateMonger]

Wow, that would really choke the crap out of it, hmmm. I do have an extra onboard SIL controller that supports 4 more SATA ports but I don't think they are hot swappable.

I don't know what SIL chipset you have, but common chipsets like 3112, 3114, 3132, 3152chipsets with non-RAID (at least) driver have been hot-swap capable in XP, 2003, and higher. At least in my experience.

Some hot-swap capable SATA disk controllers:
http://www.granitedigital.com/satapciandcardbushostadapters.aspx

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I have the Sil 5723 onboard chip on a Asus P5Q Premium P45 board. 10 total SATA ports.

 

[bryanl]

These:

http://cgi.ebay.com/IDE-TO-SATA-100...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item335ab276f4

appear to work adequately for parallel IDE HDs but not CDs or DVDs, nor are they reliable with SATA drives. Also notice the fine engineering of the IDE socket which is small enough to be plugged in backwards or over the wrong pins.