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*NEW*Soyo* IDE to SATA (or) SATA to IDE converter $35 150MB/s

CherryBOMB

CherryBOMB

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isquaredinc.com has Soyo's IDE / Serial ATA converter for $35 + $5 shipping with cable ** it's under Cables and Ide Adapters** i2inc These are brand spankin new and are backwards compatible.They can be used to conect, IDE channel motherboards to SATA Drives or IDE Drives to SATA channel on the NEW SATA Motherboards. Like Asus's A7N8X

IDE vs. SATA facts
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Soyo @ Computex 2002 showing SATA converterText2 at the bottom of page.

SATA Drives wont be out untill later in December or First of the New Year. So this kit is crucial for those like my self that will be upgradeing to a SATA channel motherboards

This will be supporting a Raid Array for my self with IDE* Maxtor ATA133 80GB 8MB cache drives on the Asus motherboard *A7N8X Deluxe*

Hope this helps anyone thinking about there next future upgrade😉 AMD 2600,2700,2800@333mhz SATA
 
They only thing I see is get as much gig as you can because theres no slaves available in the future of SATA
ATA II debuting in 2004 @ 300MB/s
ATA III in 2007 @ 600MB/s wow*:Q
My little 160gb Raid Array will be a nothing
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Originally posted by: CherryBOMB
They only thing I see is get as much gig as you can because theres no slaves available in the future of SATA
ATA II debuting in 2004 @ 300MB/s
ATA III in 2007 @ 600MB/s wow*:Q
My little 160gb Raid Array will be a nothing
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Believe it or not, no it won't. Even the fastest hard drives (namely the 15k.3 Cheetahs), running on full U320 arrays don't give an overly apparent jump in overall noticable speed difference.

Games and OSes might load in the blink of an eye, but it's all about lowering access times and increasing maximum I/O operations, not increasing the throughput. Throughput will enable you to copy files faster - not up your frame rates. As it stands, 8MB buffers on IDE drives has already hit the realm of "boring." Expect 16MB drives or special editions with 32MB within the next year, year and a half. Companies are noticing the high demand and are, for once, eager to fulfill it.

Hell, 600MB/sec is slow even now - memory interfaces are reaching as high as 10.6GB/sec and memory card interfaces are scraping 20GB/sec. 600MB/sec is a titch faster than PC133! 🙂

EDIT: Oh, and just because it's a converter from SATA to ATA133, doesn't mean you're magically going to get 150MB/sec burst rates. At most, you're going to get 65MB/sec burst rates since you'll be running the drive through a converter onto a channel it wasn't meant for - running a SOTA IDE drive on a parallel channel might get you 80MB/sec bursts - but that's about it, and only near the outer edges of the platters. So don't buy this unless you've run out of IDE channels and don't want to plunk in another two+ IRQ-eating RAID card that'll up your boot time by 30 seconds. Remember - Serial ATA only takes one device per channel. 🙂

Besides, places seem to be closing out respectable U160 drives every month or so. The ability to stack 15 drives on one channel using only ONE IRQ is something that can only be rivaled by sex. 😀 Plus single 10K SCSI drives MURDER 8MB cached drives in access times. Only downside is the size - but that's why it's best to run an IDE/SCSI hybrid config.
 
Originally posted by: DestruyaUR

Besides, places seem to be closing out respectable U160 drives every month or so. The ability to stack 15 drives on one channel using only ONE IRQ is something that can only be rivaled by sex. 😀 Plus single 10K SCSI drives MURDER 8MB cached drives in access times. Only downside is the size - but that's why it's best to run an IDE/SCSI hybrid config.
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You sir, are the king of the nerds.
*bow down*

😀

 
Originally posted by: Muhbush
Im want get a SATA to IDE adapter for my new raid system, anyone see it around?

Thanks...
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This Adapter is backwards compatible IDE to SATA or SATA to IDE!😉

An as for you *DestruyUR* You my friend are of "Titantic Monstrosity's" with a overwhelming wealth of nolage.
If I'm not to buy this than what do YoU sUgEsT I and other's do when crossed with the problem of SATA conector motherboards? This converter is the only solution I know of in useing IDE Drives on and or with the Boards!

And yes at this time there are not going to be the benifits of 150MB/s only the 133MB/s @ this time. You are right about that, I just put that in the post to get peoples attention. At this time the best motherboard in my epinion for AMD solutions is the new 333mhz frontside bus processors,combined with ASUS's A7N8X Deluxe with *SATA* Raid.

Thats what this thread was for to show how to get around not haveing or to have to BUY SATA drives.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ2078
geesh, little expensive right now, might wait for the prices to drop a bit
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I here YA , The only way I'm considering this is because of the hard drive DEALS I've gotten here lately! You add $35/$40 to your drive price ,but in hine sight I dont want to buy SATA drives ....I want AMD 333mhz on ASUS's (N)force board.. I'm upgradeing now and have no choice but to think down the road......😀
 
Heh... this is very silly, but with all the talk of SATA HD's, why is it that nobody's mentioning CD-RW's, etc.... sure, they don't really have the same data rates and such, but if this is how things will connect to the motherboard, won't they need to be introduced soon enough?
 
We won't be seeing SATA CD-ROM drives for a long time simply because there's no need for them right now - not even a 52/24/52 CD-R/W stresses the ATA33 spec. Parallel ATA has a life well into 2004 as SATA gets more and more accepted.

Let's also not forget, people - there is one downside to SATA - only one device on each chain, and that doesn't look like it's changing anytime soon. Companies won't drop parallel ATA's flexibilty over SATA's convenience. 🙂

Also, it's usually never good to be on the bleeding edge of storage tech unless you're a SCSI man like I am.
 
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