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Adding a SATA drive...

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Joey, 2006/12/18.

  1. 2006/12/18
    Joey

    Joey Inactive Thread Starter

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    Whats the best way to connect a SATA harddrive to a motherboard that only has IDE ? I have seen pci cards that
    have SATA connections and another is an adapter that plugs in the IDE connector on the motherboard. I would think I would get less performance using the adapter in the IDE connector vs a pci card....
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    I've only seen the PCI cards and would use one of those so that I didn't take up the IDE port.
     
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  4. 2006/12/18
    Joey

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    Here is a link to the sata adapter http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-IDE2SATA-20330&cpc=SCH

    If I use a pci card would I be able to restore a backup image made from my IDE drive to the SATA drive ? The SATA drive will be the only drive in my computer, would it boot or does it need a driver to boot via the pci card ?
     
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  5. 2006/12/18
    mattman

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    If you get a card that has a SATA II controller it will be able to run at the higher data transfer rates. If you connect to IDE it will not run any better than an IDE drive.

    Yes, you will need drivers, all SATA controllers do (up to Win XP, at least). When you install to a SATA drive you will need to press the F6 key when the Windows installation (at the bottom of the screen) says "...to install drivers for SCSI... ".

    Matt
     
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  6. 2006/12/19
    Joey

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    I don't want to re-install XP, im hoping to put my backup image on it. How would I get the drivers on it without reloading windows ?
     
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  7. 2006/12/29
    Joey

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    **Update**

    I purchased a pci sata 150 card and the results were poor.
    My ide hard drive had better results in the speedtests. I will wait till I upgrade my MB with Sata II connections ;)
     
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  8. 2006/12/30
    Arie

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    Yes, SATA 150 is useless. You'd only want SATA II (or more correctly SATA 3GB/s) see: Dispelling the Confusion: SATA II does not mean 3Gb/s
     
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