SATA drive to IDE

[SonicIce]

I wanted to add a new drive to storage but I'm out of SATA ports. I was wondering is using a sata to IDE converter like this would be harmful to performance? Would it be able to write at the same MB/s as if I were using the hard drive natively in SATA?

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Performance would be slower especially if you are using newer faster SATA hard drives. If they are storage drives you don't have to access constantly it likely won't annoy you.

And that is a nifty little item. 8 dollars too, pretty epic.

 

[SonicIce]

My motherboard is regular SATA 150 anyway. I wanted to record VHS tapes to the hard drive in lossless format so it would have to be able to write fairly quickly to not drop frames (maybe only 15MB/s). Anybody have any experience with these converters?

 

[Arkaign]

Do you have any PCI Express x1 slots on your mobo?

If so : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124027

If only PCI : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816132012

And yes, I've used adapters like one in the OP, and they're sheer garbage in my experience.

 

[dawp]

I'd get something like this instead. 2 ports so you could add 2 more drives and not use the IDE. IDE is really slow when compared to sata of any flavor.

 

[corkyg]

And, if you have an older system that does not have PCIE slots, you can get a good PCI controller.

http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=PDN3TtDXM83UiALtwImzAg&ved=0CFcQ8wIwAg#

 

[VirtualLarry]

Performance would be slower especially if you are using newer faster SATA hard drives. If they are storage drives you don't have to access constantly it likely won't annoy you.

And that is a nifty little item. 8 dollars too, pretty epic.

8 dollars for that is epic? I bought like 50-60 of them from Meritline some time back for less than $2 each, to resell.

 

[Virucyde]

From personal experience I've found SATA to IDE converters to be less than reliable, similar to how USB to PS/2 converters sometimes glitch up.
However, for $8, I'd say it's worth a shot, it certainly won't be capable of going 6.0 Gbps, but if you're just using a standard HDD, not some high performance one, you shouldn't see any real speed differences, assuming the converter works.

 

[razel]

From personal experience I've found SATA to IDE converters to be less than reliable

+1. From my experience, full compatibility was troublesome. The one I used was an el cheapo SATA to IDE adapter and limited the speed to 33 or 66MB/s. I forgot which, but I quickly returned it. A PCI or PCI-E SATA adapter would cost you the same and is preferred.

 

[SonicIce]

Putting off upgrading to a new system. My motherboard has only regular PCI.

I think getting a controller card might be a better route since it doesn't cost too much more and would be more reliable and I could use the smaller SATA cable. I don't think there is any advantage to getting one that supports SATA II because PCI is limited to 133MB/s anyway? Rosewill and Syba seem all pretty much the same quality?

 

[tweakboy]

I dont think youll see a diff in performance. I mean as long as its 7200rpm its gonna spit out data at same speed. and CAP out on what IDE is, 40mbps or what I dont know plus copying from hard drive to hard drive youll lucky if you get 20mbps

 

[SonicIce]

tweakboy! get out of my thread you are spreading misinformation! :biggrin:

 

[Emulex]

ide sucks because it has no NCQ (huge loss for ssd), and typically runs at 100 (ATA-133 was more of an anomaly than reality). most converters fail to work properly or run at ultradma 33 or 66 which is slower than a large drive.

pretty much if you are stuck with ide - it's time to kill it. Trust me i've tried everything that made sense to get IDE+SSD to save time having to build a new machine and in the end it was just easier to ditch IDE. you ever see the 1TB or 750/800MEG ide drives? i think maxtor made

 

[bryanl]

SATA-PATA converters vary in reliability, depending on chipset (and even revision of the chipset). Some will, in a matter of seconds or hours, put the drive in a state that requires a hard reset or power down to restore operation, and the SMART data will likely permanently flag a UDMA error. Speed degradation will not be significant for a hard drive.

SATA PCI and PCI-E controllers are reliable, except for some PCI-E cards based on a Jmicron chipset.

 

[taltamir]

Do you have any PCI Express x1 slots on your mobo?

If so : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124027

If only PCI : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816132012

And yes, I've used adapters like one in the OP, and they're sheer garbage in my experience.

+1
Avoid SATA to IDE converters like the plague.