bloody_trauma 2 #1 February 20, 2008 went out and bought a new mobo for my comp, problem is i find that the new mobo has only one IDE port and those are supposed to be for the dvd drives apparently, i guess im supposed to be using SATA conections, but the two drives i have are both IDE drives, so heres the question.. anyone have any experience using the little IDE to SATA cards? or have any suggestions for what i should short of buying new drives\moboFly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 15 #2 February 20, 2008 IDE connections are really rare on HD's anymore. Faster and easier to use SATA since it is easier to route the cables. Getting a new MB with more IDE slots isn't really an option for that reason. You can look at a PCI based IDE card, usually these have RAID and other abilities in them too. I've got one laying around here that I used to do Raid 1 with on some old 72 gig drives. I'm now running RAID 1 over SATA on my system and RAID 1 or RAID 5 on the network appliances and servers laying around the house. I'd look up one of the cards since it will provide you 4 IDE connections again and you should be able to get one for $30-40 off ebay or less.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IanHarrop 37 #3 February 20, 2008 how many IDE devices do you have dvd, disk altogether?"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bloody_trauma 2 #4 February 20, 2008 so theres this http://www.cooldrives.com/serial-ata---ata-atapi-ide-interface-adapter.html and the other option is to get a RAID controller PCI card but i dont want to give up the slot if i dont have to, so im looking at the former. dunno any suggestions?Fly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bloody_trauma 2 #5 February 20, 2008 i have 2 HDD's, 1 DVD-rw and 1 DVD im looking at buying those peripherals and connecting my drives to sataFly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bloody_trauma 2 #6 February 20, 2008 http://www.cooldrives.com/saidecomisat.html i think i might actually need this yeah really im jsut trying to figure out if an adapter will work outFly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hausse 0 #7 February 20, 2008 I would say get a new DVD-rw and DVD rom since they are not that expensive anymore. IDE is just too old and slow. You'll have to replace them sooner or later and those fix-ups usually just don't work very well (I do not have any experience with those particular things you were talking about though). For the HDD's it's a harder call since they are more expensive and you probably don't want to lose data. How big are the HDD's? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bloody_trauma 2 #8 February 20, 2008 well see if i cant find my freakin windows disk, and i really dont feel like buying a another disk/liscence again plus drives, theres gota be a way i think i have a 150 and a 300GB, the dvd drives arent a problem i just nned to figure out a way to free up that portFly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hausse 0 #9 February 20, 2008 Yeah I can understand that. Having to get new HDD's is always a giant pain. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bloody_trauma 2 #10 February 20, 2008 yeah i think i need that second oneFly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bloody_trauma 2 #11 February 21, 2008 ok went and bought a sata converter and that works very well, it actually gave a slight performance boost to my old IDE drives Fly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
