MSD
I have an IDE HDD and my board has an IDE in connector (PATA). Although I am a bit hesitant, I am gonna ask:
If I get an adapter that allows me to use a SATA (3.0 Gbps) connector would the HDD use the throughput upgrade (from 1.5 to 3.0)?
AvoK95
basically NO
a SATA converter is used to only convert the connectors so that a motherboard with no PATA support can still run it through SATA
Georges
I assume that the answer is No too.
It's just like driving a Ferrari with a mini cooper's engine on board.
yasamoka
IDE is limited to a max speed of 133MB/s. SATA 1 is slightly above it, at 150MB/s. SATA 2 is 300MB/s. A converter from IDE to SATA would be limited to the speed of the slowest interface, which is IDE in this case. Hence you cannot get over 133MB/s. Good luck getting your IDE hard drive (pre-2004/5) to 133MB/s though.
