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Any benefits of using an adapter for my old PATA drive so that I can
hook it up to the SATA port on my motherboard? I dig the increased
airflow due to the thinner cables, but the cheaper circuit board
adapters look like dust magnets. Also, I have three IDE devices which
each run natively at different UDMA speeds: a mode 5 hard disk, a mode 4
DVD writer and an old LS-120 drive whose speed I forgot (it's currently
unplugged until I need it again). Splitting them all onto different IDE
channels would be good, I guess.
-Mike
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:53:05 +0200, SharkD <mik### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Any benefits of using an adapter for my old PATA drive so that I can
> hook it up to the SATA port on my motherboard?
My experience with such adapters is that they rarely - if ever - work at
all.
> I dig the increased airflow due to the thinner cables, but the cheaper
> circuit board adapters look like dust magnets.
Keep in mind that the ribbon cables can be easily folded and drawn along
the chassis walls, making them obstruct the airflow even less than SATA
cables. There are also round cables available, but I prefer the flat ones
myself.
> Also, I have three IDE devices which each run natively at different UDMA
> speeds: a mode 5 hard disk, a mode 4 DVD writer and an old LS-120 drive
> whose speed I forgot (it's currently unplugged until I need it again).
> Splitting them all onto different IDE channels would be good, I guess.
Do you only have one parallel ATA port? If so, my advice would be to
simply replace the DVD-writer with a SATA device.
As for the LS-120, do you really need it? If it is only rarely used,
perhaps an ATA->USB adapter would be a better choice.
--
FE
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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> Do you only have one parallel ATA port? If so, my advice would be to
> simply replace the DVD-writer with a SATA device.
I would replace the hard drive with a SATA drive, as it'll likely be twice
the speed.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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