ide drives on sata raid?

External Since: Aug 28, 2004 Posts: 1

Does anyone know where I can get ide to sata connectors in the uk? Tried
dabs, ebuyer etc but cant locate (unless I'm looking in the wrong place)

Going to have to change my mobo and currently have x2 80g Barracudas in a
ide raid array, but all the raid solutions on current (socket A) mobos seem
to be sata only and I dont want to have to replace drives as well. Or should
I just forget raid and just put them both on an ide channell - will I notice
the performance hit?

External Since: Dec 12, 2003 Posts: 113

"Andy Orange" <cd5.DeleteThis@fairlight3.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know where I can get ide to sata connectors in the uk? Tried
> dabs, ebuyer etc but cant locate (unless I'm looking in the wrong place)
>
> Going to have to change my mobo and currently have x2 80g Barracudas in a
> ide raid array, but all the raid solutions on current (socket A) mobos
> seem
> to be sata only and I dont want to have to replace drives as well. Or
> should
> I just forget raid and just put them both on an ide channell - will I
> notice
> the performance hit?
>
I think you will find there are still a fair few socket a boards out there
with IDE raid.
Gigabyte GA-7NNXP for one.

SteveH