SATA with PATA

[rgmw]

My question . . . (okay, that's not much of a segue)

I'm upgrading a user to a Dell 9100, which has SATA drive connections
plus 2 PATA CD-ROMS attached to the motherboard EIDE connector.

In his old PC, he has a second hard drive, which is, of course, PATA.

For $26, I can purchase an adapter (from startech) to hook up the old
drive to the 9100 SATA.

Will the old drive hurt/hinder performance of the SATA drive? Any
better alternatives?

Thanks for any input

 

[Rod Speed]

My question . . . (okay, that's not much of a segue)

I'm upgrading a user to a Dell 9100, which has SATA drive connections
plus 2 PATA CD-ROMS attached to the motherboard EIDE connector.

In his old PC, he has a second hard drive, which is, of course, PATA.

For $26, I can purchase an adapter (from startech)
to hook up the old drive to the 9100 SATA.

Will the old drive hurt/hinder performance of the SATA drive?
Nope.

Any better alternatives?

Add another SATA drive for not much more if you are into rebates.

 

[Arno Wagner]

My question . . . (okay, that's not much of a segue)

I'm upgrading a user to a Dell 9100, which has SATA drive connections
plus 2 PATA CD-ROMS attached to the motherboard EIDE connector.

In his old PC, he has a second hard drive, which is, of course, PATA.

For $26, I can purchase an adapter (from startech) to hook up the old
drive to the 9100 SATA.

Will the old drive hurt/hinder performance of the SATA drive?

Should not.

Any better alternatives?

Don't use these adapters. I have made bad expeience with several
different ones. I would advise to copy over the installation to a SATA
drive, if you really need the disk connected to SATA. Alternatively
I would add a PCI IDE controller fro the old disk.

Arno