Re: pata disc / sata host converters

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 14, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at a motherboard update and have apparently left it too > long: it's hard to find new MBs that have PATA connectors (there are a > few, but choice is pretty limited). The hard drives for this machine > are SATA, but the optica

Re: pata disc / sata host converters

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:12:04 + Ian Malone wrote: > (Actually, given how cheap new ones are I wonder if they're better > quality anyway.) New ones almost certainly will handle higher speed media and write faster (which would only matter if you write a lot of stuff, mind you :-). -- users mail

pata disc / sata host converters

2014-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I'm looking at a motherboard update and have apparently left it too long: it's hard to find new MBs that have PATA connectors (there are a few, but choice is pretty limited). The hard drives for this machine are SATA, but the optical drives are PATA. There are a few PATA to SATA converters whi