PATA to SATA Adapters?

[Elcs]

Just going through my spare parts drawer and found my old Serielle which came with my ABIT NF7-S Rev 2.0 NForce2 Ultra board (remember those?)

Now with my new system, I bought a SATA Drive because I really needed the space and my WD died on me.

My old Samsung drive is a PATA and sitting in the top bays beside my CD-ROM drive (only 1 PATA port on the motherboard), its getting no airflow and I dont like that idea with data.

Do these old PATA to SATA Converters work? If so, Is it a simple case of plugging the cabling in and letting it loose? Down in the lower bay and on SATA, it will sit behind a 120x38mm Panaflo L1A and receive more than ample airflow.

Your thoughts please.

 

[hclarkjr]

yes they work as long as your motherboard supports sata dvd burners

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: hclarkjr
yes they work as long as your motherboard supports sata dvd burners

Sorry, I should have mentioned that this is a Hard Drive, not an Optical.

 

[hclarkjr]

in that case you should not have any problems at all

 

[996GT2]

I just recently got an IDE to SATA adaptor because having 2 IDE devices on an Nforce 570 mobo with only 1 IDE port was a major PITA in terms of cabling. I had intended on using it for my hard drive but after testing with HDTach noticed that both access times and throughput were negatively affected (drive was only getting about 40mb/s transfer rates with the adaptor, and got 55 ish without). However these things work great on optical drives or non-primary HDDs where speeds are less important.

Pic of it on my HDD (I've since moved it to my DVD burner)
http://s78.photobucket.com/alb...w&current=DSC03997.jpg

 

[Elcs]

Thanks 996GT2

This is a secondary drive, primarily for storage. I need it for a backup as I am formatting my main HDD and switching over to Vista 64-bit to utilise my 4 Gb of RAM fully. Whether I do or not is another thing. If I encounter problems, dual booting XP Pro is not a problem.

It was roasting in the DVD slots, too hot too handle when I thought about shifting it. I will get onto this tonight and shift it.