Sata drives?

[JDowdall]

Rite a couple of questions. First i have an hard ide drive in my current system and was wondering (as i have 7 sata ports) if i was to convert the ide hdd i have at the moment via an ide to sata adapter http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=24535856055&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=106549 would i get a better speed for my ide cdd drive which is on the same ide ribbon, get a sata speed i.e 300 mbps on the hdd and would i have to install any drivers and stuff

[teknokid]

doubt it as the port on the HDD is ide after all so it wont become faster.

[illusionalSin]

no you wont have to, you see the chip on the board? That contains the firmware which techinically has the drivers. Wonder how external hard drives work through usb even tho their ide or sata? Same principle, its designed so you dont need to worry about anything like that.

[teknokid]

what about the speed issue?

[illusionalSin]

Be limited, you can't force ide to go at that speed, its not designed too. Same as usb 1.1 with usb 2, aswell as wireless 802.11x standards (the other wireless technologies are ever worse because they are not standard yet, companies are going off and doing their own thing)

[JDowdall]

but the ide on the hdd is just the interface the thing that slows it down the most would be the cable and the position and how its connected to the motherboard wouldnt it?

[illusionalSin]

Would have thought pata hard drive could only transfer data at a speed lower then sata? Hmm maybe your right, its just an interface. Well reading some reviews about tests people have done on ide-tp-sata connecters and have come out mixed, between slight increase or slight decrease between the two. Could be the way the adapters are manufactured.

So effectively, theres not really anyway to know if you will get a major increase, found out you might need raid drivers because you have to change in the bios to use raid and keep the hard drive master.

[teknokid]

i dunno bout speed... otherwise all sata drives would be 300mbps but there not.

[Nox]

Slowest part of the HD is the drive itself, even the fastest 15k rpm scsi drive only transfer 100mb/s, and a pata interface could cope with that. sata will do 150, sata II will do 300, but the data isn't coming off the platters any faster... its only 'widdening the road' - doesn't make your car faster.

The only time sata is an advantage over pata for speed is getting the data out of the cache on the disk, but you will not see any increase as ultimately, you are still going through the pata to get to the sata, and then you've introduced an extra distance, level of failure and conversion slowing it down.

Now the combined speed of your two drives *could* start peaking out the ide channel, but the only time you are likely to see this is when you are installing a program, not whilst playing games

Personally, don't bother... Just save and buy a new gen sata HD and shove your old ide one into an icybox for backups.

Nox

[teknokid]

what i did. but i just chucked them full stop :p.