Re: SATA dives

Yeah, problem is that you wouldn't benefit from SATA if you used an adapter.
PCI busses aren't as fast as SATA.
I've read that PCI is limited to 133Megs/sec, but SATA starts at
150Megs/sec, so it would be futile. You would be better off with PATA in
that case.

"vernon" <there@there> wrote in message
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"vernon" <there@there> wrote in message
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I know this is not a hardware N.G. but there are a lot of savvy people
here.

Assuming one has a decent computer without a SATA interface or an
extended
pci slot, does anyone know of a SATA upgrade adaptor that works?


The answer I came up with is that a MB only capable of IDE or ATA has no
better performance with SATA. So, why bother.




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