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| Thread ID: 123831 | 2012-03-19 05:36:00 | IDE HDD on a SATA Motherboard | icow (15313) | Press F1 |
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| 1265790 | 2012-03-19 05:36:00 | I know someone who is looking to upgrade their computer (new cpu, ram, motherboard and psu) but doesn't want to buy a new hard drive because of the prices. I was thinking using this: www.trademe.co.nz to use to old HDD on but apparently you cannot use that for boot drives. So is there any sata to ide adapters that are bootable? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1265791 | 2012-03-19 05:40:00 | I used a SATA PCI card to attach the boot drive on an older PC here, I don't see why an IDE card can't be bootable. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1265792 | 2012-03-19 06:30:00 | It clearly states on the Auction "Note: This card is not a bootable card, please do not attach the system drive to it" So if you were to buy it, and it doesn't allow a system to boot, then you cant complain or say it was falsely advertised. I have a PCI card with two IDE connections in the workshop,(no SATA) - and you cant put on the boot drive, any slave /secondary drive no problems. I'd suggest the person saves their pennies and buys a SATA drive, it will be better in the long run. Depending on the size of the drive required, a 160GB isn't to bad Example: 160GB from Ascent (www.ascent.co.nz) or for a few $ more a 500GB (www.ascent.co.nz) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1265793 | 2012-03-19 07:47:00 | Sadly, HDD prices are still about twice the price they were before the Thailand floods of late last year. WD and Seagate factories were flooded and global demand on drives pushed the prices through the roof. Any drive you buy now, you're going to pay a bit more for, but if you're going to buy new CPU, Motherboard, Ram, PSU, why stick with the old IDE HDD and create a bottle-neck in your system. Go all the way as has been suggested and buy a SATA HDD, much better data transfer speeds and will complement the rest of your system. The WD Blue drives WT has linked to are a great choice of drives, fast and quiet and pretty reliable I have found (although you occasionally find a rotten egg in the basket as you do with any mass-produced item these days). Good luck with the upgrade. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1265794 | 2012-03-20 05:38:00 | I have 2 x 250GB Seagate SATA drives 7200.12, your mate can have them gratis (that means FREE, following on from your 1st PM icow), if he still needs a drive. PM or email me chiefnz[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk I may need till the weekend to clean them up though so if he can wait until next week for them to be delivered no worries. Cheers, |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 1265795 | 2012-03-21 02:34:00 | I have use stuff like this (www.trademe.co.nz) before to get around this issue. | tmrafi (5179) | ||
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