demonikal
New Member
I'm putting in a hard drive (IDE) for a guy. I told him he had two choices. He could either get an IDE to SATA converter...or...get a SATA hard drive since he had no more IDE ports on his motherboard, yet he had 3 available SATA ports on his motherboard. So, he took the cheaper option and decided to buy the IDE to SATA converter.
He asked me if he should have his Operating System on the IDE hard drive, since it's larger, or if he should keep the OS on his one SATA hard drive. I told him I'd look into it.
I don't know if the IDE to SATA converter makes speeds equivalent to IDE speeds since I have the converter and I'm using a SATA cable to the motherboard. If the speeds are equivalent to SATA with the converter, I'll obviously clone his original drive to the bigger one. If not, then I'll tell him that his read/write speeds are still faster on the SATA hard drive where his Operating System is now.
Thanks for any info, cuz the converter says nothing about what it does or doesn't do with speeds.
He asked me if he should have his Operating System on the IDE hard drive, since it's larger, or if he should keep the OS on his one SATA hard drive. I told him I'd look into it.
I don't know if the IDE to SATA converter makes speeds equivalent to IDE speeds since I have the converter and I'm using a SATA cable to the motherboard. If the speeds are equivalent to SATA with the converter, I'll obviously clone his original drive to the bigger one. If not, then I'll tell him that his read/write speeds are still faster on the SATA hard drive where his Operating System is now.
Thanks for any info, cuz the converter says nothing about what it does or doesn't do with speeds.