hey i have my hard drive now stored at the bottom part of my computer case. The IDE cable connecting the hard drive is constricting air flow in my PC and raising the temps. I was wondering if i would be able to use SATA cables and SATA hooksups for the hard drive(boot hard drive) to work, and not have the big IDE cable in the way? thanks
I know you can run an IDE to SATA convertor to the drive, and use a SATA cable to connect the adapter to the M/B. However I am not sure if you can run one at both ends? If you have SATA ports then get one, I'm sure there are no issues with them, but couldn't recommend using two on one drive.
there are coverters for IDE to Sata. but with all do respect why would you do that there is no benifet from running IDE on SATA. you could just use this. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812104202
gibbey531 the product I suggested will do that. It plugs into the back of your IDE harddrive, and provides a SATA port. You then use a SATA cable to connect the SATA port on the device to the SATA port on the motherboard. Items like this are what I am talking about. However I would prefer to suggest using a round IDE cable like the type that has previously been suggested.
They inprove airflow wonderfully, you will never use a flat ide cable ever agian i garentee it. Phil2000 recomendation is right on the money but it, would leave stuff dangling in your computer for better or for worse.
I have limited IDE port availability on most of my boards as IDE has been slowly disappearing. I use several IDE to SATA converters and they work just fine. I have them on older HDD’s which I use for backup and I also use one on my Plextor PX716A DVD RW drive which was too good to leave out my main machine. I use the following versions, I'm not sure where you are located so I will link to a US and UK site, the latter being where I got mine. http://sewelldirect.com/SerialATA-IDE-Dongle.asp http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124850 They are cheap, but small and work very well, all you need is supply the drive with power as usual, plug the dongle into IDE port, then plug in the SATA cable to the dongle and also provide the dongle with power via a standard floppy drive type power cable. They are only SATA 1.0 compliant, but they work on backward compatible SATA 2.0 ports without any issues, and as IDE is slower than SATA 1 anyway, it won't be a problem with slowing the drive down. Here are a few runs I've just done to show speed, I don't have any IDE drives connected via IDE standard only via converters, so can't compare that. These test are as they come, no tweaking or defragging done, just run with PC doing other stuff in background. TOP: Seagate 160GB IDE via SATA -IDE converter compared against standard SATA 2 Seagate Drive 80GB. MIDDLE: Same Seagate IDE drive compared against a WD Raptor 74GB SATA 1 drive. BOTTOM: Same Seagate IDE drive against 2x WD Raptors (SATA 1) in RAID 0.
