SATA TO PATA CONVERTOR - HOW EFFECTIVE IS IT?

[njlippard]

Hi all - I have been offered some 250GB SATA drives each with a convertor to PATA as a solution. The drives are ST3250823AS and have the same specs as the ST3250823A - the question I have is will it work? and how will it perform ? I am also worried about power consumption and heat issues also?

Does any one know or has used one of these convertors.

Cheers - thanks for help

 

[paparazi]

These were very common devices when SATA HDD's were first introduced and SATA controllers were not so common.
I think Abit were one company that supplied one of these with many of their motherboard models.
They are very effective, they don't have any particular problems and certainly don't run hot or consume any detectable amount of power.
However, obviously they do restrict transfer rates to the slowest denominator of ATA133, thats not really a issue as even modern SATA drives rarely exceed 70MB/sec sustained with only occasional bursts just breaking the 100/110MB/sec barrier, that's well within the usual IDE bus speed of 133MB/sec"
These devices could be restrictive if the user wanted to implement Raid!
Martin


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