IDE to SATA HD

I just got a 750 G SATA hard drive but I need a controller from my IDE motherboard to SATA. Can anyone suggest a good one? I found this

http//www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16815124022

It's cheap but is there a reason for that?

[quote06f688234c="aviendha47"]I just got a 750 G SATA hard drive but I need a controller from my IDE motherboard to SATA. Can anyone suggest a good one? I found this

http//www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16815124022

It's cheap but is there a reason for that?[/quote06f688234c]

that one looks fine )

That will work by adding additional controllers to your system. However it's only a SATA-150 controller and I'm sure your new drive is a SATA II/3g drive. But in the majority of desktop scenarios the extra performance isn't taken advantage of so you wouldn't really lose anything. With a single 7200rpm drive you'd never hit 150MBps anyway.

You can also use a SATA-to-PATA adapter to use the drive with the PATA controllers on your mobo, that way you don't install any new cards. Just plug the dongle into the back of the drive, and your PATA ribbon cable into that. I do this for some of my older Linux boxes that are still PATA only, as I only buy SATA drives for the last several years.

BTW, to be technically pedantic, both SATA and PATA are IDE drives, despite the fact many vendors erroneously refer to PATA as "IDE."

Thanks for the clarification. Your posts are always illuminating.

How about this one. It indicates SATA II

http//www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124008

[quote87181f79dc="aviendha47"]Thanks for the clarification. Your posts are always illuminating.

How about this one. It indicates SATA II

http//www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124008[/quote87181f79dc]
Well, I'm not too sure about that one either. I'd probably go with the first one because honestly I don't think that one is capable of SATA II speeds either. It uses a Silicon Image 3114 controller which IIRC is a 1st gen SATA controller. In fact it says SATA 1.0 in the specs. Plus it's a PCI card and not a PCI Express card, and I'm not sure PCI bandwidth could support SATA II anyway.

But really, that's all moot technobabble since, like I said, you will be highly unlikely to approach SATA 150 speeds anyway. Only in high I/O and RAID type environments with multiple drives can you burst better than 150MB/s across an ATA bus anyway. Those drives burst at around 70-80MB/s usually. Just go cheap and get the first one, I'd say.

BTW here's an adapter like I mentioned, as an alternative. This one will convert in either direction

http//www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186032

Thanks for finding that bidirectional adapter, I was having trouble finding one that'd go either way. I'll probably go with that.

my mobo had a controller already but migrating from my ide to the sata was such a pita it was ridiculous. i don't even remember how i fina;l;y figured it out. even to this day my dual-boot doesn't work. to get my computer to boot at all i had to delete my boot.ini file so that when i start my computer it says "invalid boot.ini, booting c\windows". i tried a gazillion paths and stuff in the ini but it just wouldn't work. and even re-installing vista (i use xp but had vista as a second boot option) still wouldn't restore the vista boot loader. i had to delete the files for it too, so that it'd attempt the boot.ini method.