IDE to SATA converters

Captain Morgan · 12-13-2003, 01:39 AM

Hey I am about to order 2 of these converters from AMS and I am wondering if I will see performance decrease from using them. I will have a W.D. 80Gb 8mb cache IDE drive ATA100, and a Maxtor 40Gb 2mb cache ATA133 connected to the SATA ports on my A7N8Xv2 Deluxe

not raided. I was going to buy the WD 120Gb SATA drive, it's only $107 and has a 3 year wrnty, but I don't feel like spending money till after xmas.

edit - the mobo SATA ports are Silicon Image Sil 3112A

Dgomeat · 12-13-2003, 03:50 AM

The HDD will only read and access and send at it's original speed, but the mobo will shuffle the info around at the SATA speed. I think you'll see some additional speed, but not a whole lot.

Captain Morgan · 12-13-2003, 04:10 AM

Cool, I didn't expect increased performance, just don't want to lose any. thanks for the reply

12-13-2003, 01:39 AM	#1
Captain Morgan Truly HARDCORE Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Saint Louis Posts: 3,173	IDE to SATA converters Hey I am about to order 2 of these converters from AMS and I am wondering if I will see performance decrease from using them. I will have a W.D. 80Gb 8mb cache IDE drive ATA100, and a Maxtor 40Gb 2mb cache ATA133 connected to the SATA ports on my A7N8Xv2 Deluxe not raided. I was going to buy the WD 120Gb SATA drive, it's only $107 and has a 3 year wrnty, but I don't feel like spending money till after xmas. edit - the mobo SATA ports are Silicon Image Sil 3112A Last edited by Captain Morgan; 12-13-2003 at 01:42 AM.

12-13-2003, 03:50 AM	#2
Dgomeat Truly HARDCORE Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,842	Re: IDE to SATA converters The HDD will only read and access and send at it's original speed, but the mobo will shuffle the info around at the SATA speed. I think you'll see some additional speed, but not a whole lot.

12-13-2003, 04:10 AM	#3
Captain Morgan Truly HARDCORE Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Saint Louis Posts: 3,173	Re: IDE to SATA converters Cool, I didn't expect increased performance, just don't want to lose any. thanks for the reply

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