Re: More computery questions - SATA

On or around 04 Jun 2007 15:28:27 GMT, Bernard Peek <bap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
enlightened us thusly:

On 2007-06-04, Richard Robinson <richardR@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andy Burns said:
On 04/06/2007 15:26, Richard Robinson wrote:

Similiarly ... is SATA backwardsly compatible with IDE, can they be plugged
into an ancient mobo that doesn't specifically support them ?

You can[5] get "bridge boards" which convertify IDE to SATA, an internal
SATA card would be betterer thobut if you have a PCI slit available.

Which I do ... so the disk would cost extra to the extent of 1 card,
basically. Ta.

It looks as if SATA disks are cheaper than IE. With two disks you might save
the price of the card. You might get a slight performance boost too.

*perk*

they were the same price last time, and the need to ohl a cable tipped it
towards IDE.

however, 250GB for 30-odd ZU would be handy.
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