Re: why only 1 IDE on new motherboards?


"OhioGuy" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fq964g$rmb$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
why in the world would any knowledgeable upgrader >want to stick with
PATA drives?.

Hmm, let's see:

1) because we have loads of IDE cables laying around

That's a blessing? ; ) They're clogging up my cable box! Now I've got an
excess of SATA cables started. Two came with my MB, one with each SATA
drive and.... I can't figure out where teh other two came from. Oh well,
they're easier to store.

2) because you can hook 2 drives up to each IDE cable

Not necesaarily an advantage when you can't always get the cables to reach.
Also the 2" wide ribbon does a great of job clogging the tower and blocking
air flow.


3) because if you have a full size tower, many of the shorty SATA cables
they ship with a mboard don't even reach

Never ran into that problem with my 19" high tower. All my SATA cables are
18" long and the ports are located 3" from the bottom of the case.


4) and Primarily, there have been some really good deals on brand new
IDE/PATA drives lately. I'm talking about prices 35% cheaper than SATA
for Seagate drives with 5 year warranty. Why wouldn't I go for that?

Sounds like a clearance sale! Also sounds like a PATA fire-sale! They're
reaching the end of their production life. Go for it!!!


If you hang out on fatwallet.com or slickdeals.com, you'll see these type
of deals pop up relatively often. It is just annoying to find out that a
motherboard upgrade would, in most cases, make it impossible for me to use
all of the new drives without spending an extra $40 or so. ($20 for a
board with 3+ PCI slots, and $20 for a PCI IDE controller card) All of
that just so the mboard manufacturer can save $1 on their chipset and
manufacturing cost.

Yea, that's what I ran into. DDR2 cheaper than DDR, SATA faster than PATA,
new cpus and MBs,requiring DDR2. Arrrgh...!
Finally decided to bite the bullet -- it was becoming obvious that I'd have
to sooner or later. No regrets; my new setup is significantly snappier.

It's just sad that a certain person on this user group (NOT you : )
sincerely believes than anybody NOT doing it his way is a stupid lemming ; )
Quite a character -- a sad character.



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