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Originally Posted by hj3 I heard that with an IDE to SATA converter card, you could make your ide drive perform at SATA drive speed |
Yes and no. First generation SATA has max speed of 150 MB/s. Max speed of PATA/133 is 133 MB/s. Theoretical difference of 17 MB/s. In practice, using a desktop drive, its sustained read and write performance will be significantly less than either interface maximum, so you're unlikely to see any real performance difference, as the drive itself is the limitation. The only time when SATA would have an advantage would be situations where the data is already in the drive's cache and the drive can burst up the interface maximum. Desktop usage profile tends to be too random for cache hits to makeup the majority of data requests.
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Originally Posted by hj3 ...are IDE to SATA adapters a bunch of hype? |
Adapters allow PATA drives to be connected to SATA controllers. They are not for performance gain. Provided you have a quality adapter and everything was powered properly, it should have worked. You might double-check your BIOS options for how your SATA and PATA controllers are enabled, emulated, which is bootable, etc.