SATA/EIDE Adaptor

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I seem to remember that someone posted about an adaptor cable that would
allow you to use EIDE drives on the SATA interface. I searched the web a
bit and found cards but no cable type adaptors. Is there such a thing?

DDDD

 

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"DDDD" <someone@some.one> wrote in message
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| I seem to remember that someone posted about an adaptor cable that would
| allow you to use EIDE drives on the SATA interface. I searched the web a
| bit and found cards but no cable type adaptors. Is there such a thing?
|
| DDDD
|
|

Hi DDDD -

Abit's Seriellel2 converter gizmo.

Try here:
http://www.excaliberpc.com/product_info.php?cPath=156_162&products_id=2060

Jef

 

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"Jef Norton" <jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "DDDD" <someone@some.one> wrote in message
> news:c29ff$4073ff53$45234950$12992@allthenewsgroups.com...
> | I seem to remember that someone posted about an adaptor cable that would
> | allow you to use EIDE drives on the SATA interface. I searched the web
a
> | bit and found cards but no cable type adaptors. Is there such a thing?
> |
> | DDDD
> |
> |
>
> Hi DDDD -
>
> Abit's Seriellel2 converter gizmo.
>
> Try here:
> http://www.excaliberpc.com/product_info.php?cPath=156_162&products_id=2060
>
> Jef
>

Thats what I was looking for but they are very expensive for what you get.
It would be $30, including shipping, and an 80GB SATA hard drive is anywhere
from $75 and up. I think that I will just get a SATA drive and use my EIDE
for storing stuff.

Thanks,
DDDD

 

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"DDDD" <someone@some.one> wrote in message
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|
| Thats what I was looking for but they are very expensive for what you get.
| It would be $30, including shipping, and an 80GB SATA hard drive is
anywhere
| from $75 and up. I think that I will just get a SATA drive and use my
EIDE
| for storing stuff.
|
| Thanks,
| DDDD
|
|

Hi DDDD -

I agree - it's an expensive addition if your board didn't already come with
one. The NF7-S retail package is supposed to come with standard, for
instance.... adding one later is a big dent in the wallet and makes the
bite a little easier chew to go all the way to SATA in the first place.

Just knew (from yesterday) where to point you and let you make up your own
mind.

Jef

 

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On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:08:29 -0700, "Jef Norton"
<jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>"DDDD" <someone@some.one> wrote in message
>news:11835$40741b93$45234d7c$17310@allthenewsgroups.com...
>|
>| Thats what I was looking for but they are very expensive for what you get.
>| It would be $30, including shipping, and an 80GB SATA hard drive is
>anywhere
>| from $75 and up. I think that I will just get a SATA drive and use my
>EIDE
>| for storing stuff.
>|
>| Thanks,
>| DDDD
>|
>|
>
>Hi DDDD -
>
>I agree - it's an expensive addition if your board didn't already come with
>one. The NF7-S retail package is supposed to come with standard, for
>instance.... adding one later is a big dent in the wallet and makes the
>bite a little easier chew to go all the way to SATA in the first place.
>
>Just knew (from yesterday) where to point you and let you make up your own
>mind.
>
>Jef
>


MWave is a much better place to get them. Last time I checked they
were about $20 from them.

 

[Lars]

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On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:00:46 -0700, Jef Norton wrote:

>> allow you to use EIDE drives on the SATA interface.
>
>Abit's Seriellel2 converter gizmo.
>http://www.excaliberpc.com/product_info.php?cPath=156_162&products_id=2060
>Jef

Is there any performance advantage to go that way rather than
plug an IDE drive into the IDE port?
Supposing you have that choice of course, which I do.


Lars, Stockholm

 

[frodo]

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wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:00:46 -0700, Jef Norton wrote:

> Is there any performance advantage to go that way rather than
> plug an IDE drive into the IDE port?

Negative.

At present, SATA is no faster than PATA, even tho the specs say otherwise.
If you look around at the subsystem benchmark results that places like
HardOCP report, single-drive PATA often beats single-drive SATA (albeit,
these benchmarks do not reflect real-world performance). Where SATA does
pull ahead (usually) is when you set them up in pairs as a RAID 0 volume.

SATA's big advantage is simplicity, and a small drive cable, plus lots of
room for improvement in the future; PATA has pretty much hit the ceiling
w/ ATA-100 (ATA-133 still has not been "ratified", and likely won't be).

----

lots of SATA drives today really ARE PATA, then just have an add-on chip
that performs the P-to-A conversion. That too is changing, slowly.

Give it a year or two, SATA will improve a great deal.