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SATA to IDE adapters?

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do they exist? also right now i have my games all installed on a 120GB SATA drive. if they even make a SATA to IDE (not IDE to SATA) adapters and i run my SATA drive through an IDE adapter how much performance would i lose?
 
I would think not.

For the cost of buying a downgrade technology adapter, most people would just pay for the PCI card to upgrade it.
 
actually, for at least the transition period I forsee quite a demand for that, especially if you can reliably convert from PATA to SATA and then back again.

of course every interface will reduce signal quality, the question would be how much, and if there are means to clean it up in the bridge card itself.

as a side note there is now an ATAPI compliant bridge card out
http://www.acard.com/eng/press/2004/pcdiy01.html
for optical drives
 
Originally posted by ZenOps
I would think not.

For the cost of buying a downgrade technology adapter, most people would just pay for the PCI card to upgrade it.
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or sell your motherboard and upgrade to one that does have sata support. You might actually even SAVE money going this route and havea nice upgrade to boot!
 
They do exist...

EDIT: My bad - I should have read more carefully. Why not just purchase a PCI SATA Card? They have the potential to be faster and more flexible than onboard SATA anyway...
 
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