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    sata to ide converter

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jisaac, Jan 17, 2008.

  1. jisaac

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    can anyone find my a link to a website that sells a sata to ide converter ( to use a sata ssd drive in my pata slot). I have seen these available for pc's (40 pin) but none available for 44 pin, by the way my laptop is an asus s6f.
    thanks
     
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You are not going to find one for a laptop. There are IDE SATA drives out there I think.
     
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    Agreed, I'm not sure where it would physically fit even if anybody made one.
     
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    Can anyone comment on this adapter above?

    I have a Dell M140 and was really hoping to get a SATA SSD for this laptop.


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    2.5" SATA Hard Drive to IDE 44 Pin Adapter For Laptop Drives
    http://www.cooldrives.com/2sahadrtoide.html
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    F.
     
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    I cannot comment on this adapter per se, but can based on using a sata-to-pata bridge adapter in an optical drive bay as described here. Noteworthy points:

    • you're going to need space to fit the above adapter in. Do you have that space?
    • the sata-to-pata bridge chips consume an additional 0.8-1W overhead to do the translation. This is regardless of whether the HDD is spinning or not.
    • performance on an ICH8M was capped at ATA100/UDMA5 speeds, measured to max out at 83-87MB/s. All PATA interfaces on ICHxM interfaces are limited to ATA100/UDMA5 speeds.
    • Any of the latest 2.5" 250gb-per-platter SATA HDDs work at or under this limit. You *might* start hitting interface limits with the fastest of the lot, WD5000BEVT, 7200.4. Buffer transfers will be slower than on a native SATA interface, where they are done at > 118MB/s. Shouldn't have any major impact on performance.
    • Consider too native PATA 160gb-per-platter HDDS: HM160HC, 250GB WD2500BEVE or 320GB WD3200BEVE. Decent performing, increases storage space, conserves battery life. Con is their higher cost per GB and not suited to transplant in future SATA equipped system upgrade.

    SSD concentric answer is here.
     
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