Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

Yes, with almost any SATA & IDE Mobo you can have 4 IDE devices (2 channels with Master/Slave) and two SATA. The convertor is only needed if you have old IDE drives and you don't want to change the drives to native SATA.

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

Abit do exactly what you wanted, a Serializer 2, small unit that plugs into and IDE devicealowing it to connect to a SATA port. Everyone is right though when they say you won't see and performance gains but you hardly will with a SATA hard disk anyway. Nearly all current models are just standards drives with an additional parallel converter chip on them that allows them to take serial data. The Abit thing just does this in reverse. If you want to see a preformance gain go for a SATA drive with 10000rpm spindle speed or 16Mb cache. Hopefully SATA2 drives will be true SATA drives and not just conversions.

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

The greatest benefit is from having the onboard RAID 0 or 1 (depending on what you want to use it for).

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

Hmm, I would see the greatest benefit in having 4 hard drives & 2 CD roms in 1 PC.

MIght look for one of them myself, for an external caddy so I can add the older drives, do the buisness & then take em out again.

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

I use 7 hdd and 3 optical drives in my pc Neo platinum mobo only came with 2 ide controlers and the nvidia sata had 4 slots. I soon populated all these and was left with 2 ide hdd.I bought an ide / raid card for less than £20 and it wokrs fine(except I cant find 64 bit drivers for it lol )

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

Why? What for? Are they in RAID5?

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

PVR uses 2 O/s=1 Back up = 1 media=1 games=2

lite on cdr = 1 best cd rewriter ive ever found writes in all modes,back ups anything

lite on dvd rom simple to make multi region without cracked firmware

pioneer dvd 108 only use pioneer firmware also best rewriter ive found for compatability

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

sorry for the late reply but yes I have the potential to do that

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

you can add raid to a pc for less than £20

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

Isn't that for killing bugs? :D

I thought that Raid was using several hard drives but all with the same data on for security/backup purposes rather than lots of HDD's all with different data on ?

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

It is,you do not have to set up an array though,I bought a pci raid card with 2 ide channels for about £15,thi s on its own non raid can support 4 devices either optical or hard drive.In raid it supports mirroring or stripe,you can buy cards cheap with either ide or sata

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...de=IO-PIDE133R

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=48670
non raid sata card

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

So I can put 4 hard drives on the mobo ports, get another PCI card and add 2 hard drives & 2 cd's to that.
Cool.

SATA ones too if I could ever afford them :D

Re: Ide HDD to sata
 

you would want to keep 1 optical on your main ide to boot from as pci cards will need drivers to install xp on,but basically the answer is yes,as long as the card chip sets are different you can add as many as you board allows,I have 2 of my sata drives rigged up to a back plate sata converter turning them into external,my board came with this converter,one of the cards on ebuyer has one internal and one external,as long as the drive has the the sata power connector and you have bought the correct leads these external drives are hot swapable