Ide to SATA = Reformat ?

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liquidfluidity

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Just need to know if I decide to use a couple of these adapters , wether or not I will need to reformat the drive. I'm trying to clean up some wiring in my case and have a few more SATA jacks open on my board. LMK what you think. Thanks!
 
You will probalby have to change the boot.ini file if you cannot change the boot order in the BIOS. I don't recommend using those adapters, FWIW
 
Any particular reasons for frowning on these adapters? Just checking. I would like to prolong the inevitable change of my last 2 drives to SATA.:rolleyes:
 
liquidfluidity said:
Any particular reasons for frowning on these adapters? Just checking. I would like to prolong the inevitable change of my last 2 drives to SATA.:rolleyes:
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Well the downfall from my experience, they don't fit in my case unless i mount them in the 5.25 bays.
 
I have a pair of them collecting dust - they never worked quite right (now that I think of it, I don't recall if they worked at all!).
 
They work. People will complain about the tiny extra 0.1ms extra seek time when using those adaptors. I don't think it really matters.

I keep a couple plugged into a computer used for troubleshooting that only has one ide port which is used for the cdroms.
 
the IDE to SATA drive adapters i used (came with abit motherboards a while back) pwnt my data every single time the system started.

i dumped them very fast, although i'm sure they have improved since then. just get some rounded cables or install some nice cable-gami and you will be fine.
 
iroc409 said:
the IDE to SATA drive adapters i used (came with abit motherboards a while back) pwnt my data every single time the system started.

i dumped them very fast, although i'm sure they have improved since then. just get some rounded cables or install some nice cable-gami and you will be fine.
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Maybe those were defective. All they were were a translation bridge that I believe doesn't even show up in device manager. Before hard drives became native SATA, they were even built onto the hard drives itself so that SATA hard drives could be provided. It isn't only until the recent two generations of hard drives have they been native SATA hard drives rather than using a bridge. The bridge does not support ncq, which doesn't seem to be much of a drawback anyways.

Also thinking about it, those bridges were supposed to work with IDE drives and SATA headers on the motherboard. You might have been using them the wrong way, trying to convert a motherboard's ide header into a SATA channel rather than the opposite.
 
I see that there are a lot of different opinions/experiences about these adapters. Maybe I'll try just 1 before I go and get 2 -3. Thanks guys , for all of the views and experiences.
 
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