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IDE or SATA ?

Discussion in 'Storage and Networking' started by thomash85715, Oct 23, 2007.

  1. thomash85715 Newcomer, in training

    Hi: Thought I had mobo trouble but new diagnosis is HDD failure. Instructions from repair tech are to replace with parallel IDE only; not serial which I think is same as SATA. What gives? Is there an upgrade adaptor card or plug to enable SATA drives on IDE computers? This is emachines t2042 from early 2003 with XP. Thank you. --Tom in AZ
    thomash85715, Oct 23, 2007
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  2. Fragrant Coit Newcomer, in training Posts: 577

    Those SATA / PCI cards work well for Storage, but are impossible to boot from unless your BIOS supports it - most don't.

    Better off sticking with IDE.
    Fragrant Coit, Oct 23, 2007
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  3. Rik Banned Posts: 4,987

    Your crappy psu (power supply unit) probably wouldn't last long with sata.

    E-machine psu's are the cheapest of the cheap in quality, you should replace it with a decent one before it dies and fries your mobo.

    With a better psu you could add a sata raid card if you wanted to, it would be a little quicker, but, you would probably have to buy a windows cd as the e-machine one probably wont work with it.
    Rik, Oct 23, 2007
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