Thread: Ide HDD to sata
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Old 06-02-2005, 23:30   #10
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Re: Ide HDD to sata
Wow, that cheap ebuyer one IS a SATA converter, unbelievable price.

Reasons to use a converter (or two)
1. Pair of reasonably quick IDE drives, and put them as a RAID pair on the SATA RAID (on many boards, SATA is a RAID controller).
2. Need to clear IDE cneels, maybe for two simultaneous CD/DVD writers, one per channel.
3. Want less clutter of large IDE cables.

Generally, a SATA converter will have minimal effect on the drive's performance. Unless you had two active drives on one IDE channel, or would do, the perfomance will generally not improve by moving them to SATA.
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