Parallel to SATA Adapters

[akers]

Does anyone have any experience with parallel to Serial ATA adapters?

I have two Maxtor 160GB ATA133 drives I want to put on the SATA ports but only if there is little or no performance penalty. I plan on using a mobo based on the 875P chipset. I am looking at the Chaintech Zenith and the Abit IC7-G.

The local Fry's carries a couple of differant brands of adapters (IWill and a no-name generic) and of course there is the Abit Serillel/Serillel2.

 

[EeyoreX]

I recently got two of these. I have noticed no performance difference, though supposedly there are some benchmarks that say there is a performance hit. However, if there is it is so slight that I don't notice it, and I tend to ignore benchmarks, in favor of "Does it feel fast enough for me?" testing. I noticed no difference at all once I got them installed.

\Dan

 

[LED]

I used them B4 I went to Raptors...about the same performance with less CPU usage.

 

[beatle]

Ditto what these guys said. I used the serillel converter that came with my motherboard on my 180GXP before I picked up a raptor. The 180GXP didn't feel any slower to me. If there is any performance hit, it is unnoticeable and outweighed by the fact that each hd on SATA can be accessed concurrently with other drives.

 

[jamesbond007]

I bought two of the ones EeyoreX have. I tried to use two of my Seagate 80GB 2MB cache drives in my Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard using the onboard SATA controller. However, only one harddrive would function at a time. Anyone know the cause of this?

However, my experience with one HDD going is like everyone elses...same speed, less CPU. Oh, and a much 'tidy-er' computer setup on the inside of the tower.

 

[LED]

jamesbond007...some Intellers take a different adapter (Serillel2's) then the 1's that initially came out

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: LED
jamesbond007...some Intellers take a different adapter (Serillel2's) then the 1's that initially came out

So you're saying if I purchase new adapters, it could work? Bah! I'll just get new SATA drives.

Thanks for the tip!