Old and New Tech Together, Cheap: TekGems’ Compatibility Adapters for Ultra ATA and Serial ATA Drives- Page 3/5
January 31, 2007
By
Thomas Soderstrom
Serial ATA controller to Ultra ATA Drive Adapter SD-SATA-IDE
Also labeled as model SD-ADSAIDE-S1, the SD-SATA-IDE addresses most of the compatibility issues mentioned with the previous part: It’s narrow enough to clear the power connector on every drive we tried, and functions stably with every optical drive (CD-ROM, etc), magnetic drive (HDD), and motherboard we tested, including the previously mentioned Asus P5B Deluxe-WiFi/AP Edition.
Of course we’d like to show a photo that proves the superior fit of this doubly expensive (around $14) model:
A familiar Silicon Image SATALink chip is found under the translucent plastic cover, this controller from a company well regarded for both performance and compatibility.
SiSoft Sandra 2005 shows little to no performance loss using the SATA adapter, compared to the drive’s native interface.
The ATA100 to SATA adapter’s transfer graph (Blue) perfectly follows that of the drive’s native ATA100 interface (Red) in this HD Tach RW test.
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