 EmilioGWhats This?Premium
join:2000-09-19
New York, NY | reply to longstreet
Re: [hard drive] IDE & SATA....Together..? said by longstreet:don't expect sata speeds with that adapter. y not just return the drive and get one that works with your motherboard? No, I haven't purchased a SATA drive yet. Just wondering if and how they work. So what is the sense of selling SATA Pci adapters if you can't get SATA speeds or anything close to SATA? |
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1 edit | You are limited to the speed of the BUS you are connected to, regardless of adapter speed/type
Think about an adapter that fits a big pipe into a smaller one. The smaller pipe can't handle all the information of the larger one.
So if you have a IDE bus on the motherboard and a sata adapter into it, your sata drive will be throttled down to IDE speeds. |
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 Sandman5Premium
join:2002-07-10
Strafford, MO | said by longstreet:You are limited to the speed of the BUS you are connected to, regardless of adapter speed/type Think about an adapter that fits a big pipe into a smaller one. The smaller pipe can't handle all the information of the larger one. So if you have a IDE bus on the motherboard and a sata adapter into it, your sata drive will be throttled down to IDE speeds. Actually you're limited to the speed of the PCI bus. A PCI SATA adapter does not use the IDE channel.
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EmilioGWhats This?Premium
join:2000-09-19
New York, NY | Grreat, thanks guys. |
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