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Keetha said:Quick Question. I want to get a WD Raptor 74gb drive, but my motherboard dosn't support SATA and I do not want to buy a SATA controller card. If I get a SATA - > IDE converter, will there be any performance dip?
Leeum said:I find the convertors making IDE drives into SATA a bottleneck aswell, I'd get a new motherboard with SATA if you want a WD Raptor.
A PCI SATA card will be limited to the maximum bandwidth of a PCI slot.
Keetha said:Well, if the drive is originally an IDE, how does bridging it to SATA increase performance at all? Going from IDE -> SATA -> IDE just leaves the data back where it started. My burst transer max will only go down to 133 from 150, or something like that. Also, I was kind of misleading in my original post. I am actually getting a raptor drive from my friend (and his whole entire computer actually, he is going to Iraq). I just wanted to take the drive from the comp I get from him and switch it with my main.