PCI to IDE card is better or IDE to SATA converter better

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pateltr

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I've following Desktop config
(1) Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3V board
(2) 250 GB SATA HDD
(3) 8GB DDR3 RAM
(4) Pentium G2020 (Ivy Bridge)

Now i want to use my old IDE HDDs with combine capacity of 160GB as a storage drives. I've google that PCI to IDE card you can use ( My board has PCI Slot ) but some user has problems like booting, detecting IDE drives.

And there is also separate IDE to SATA port converter. Simply attach one side to IDE HDD & other side to the SATA port.

Now i'm confused which one to buy ?

please help me
 
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Personally, I'd do neither.
Consider a whole new drive. Faster, more reliable, quieter...

I tried that route - PCI -IDE card, connecting a couple of older IDE drives as extra storage space.

Yes, it worked, but was louder and more power hungry. A new, 1TB SATA drive, and port all the data from the existing IDE drives to that.
A USB IDE/SATA cable to transfer the data, and use in the future for other old drives that come my way.

I completely understand wanting to reuse the old drives. But in comparison to a 1 or 2 TB new drive....you're at 10x or 20x the available space, for not really much more money.
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I'd be inclined to go with the IDE-SATA converters unless you're really anxious to keep as many SATA connectors available as possible. It'll be simpler and the cabling will be much neater too.

There shouldn't be any difference in performance either way.

Having said that, can you really justify the cost of either option for the sake of 160GB when terabyte-class hard disks are so cheap these days?

Stephen
 
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Personally, I'd do neither.
Consider a whole new drive. Faster, more reliable, quieter...

I tried that route - PCI -IDE card, connecting a couple of older IDE drives as extra storage space.

Yes, it worked, but was louder and more power hungry. A new, 1TB SATA drive, and port all the data from the existing IDE drives to that.
A USB IDE/SATA cable to transfer the data, and use in the future for other old drives that come my way.

I completely understand wanting to reuse the old drives. But in comparison to a 1 or 2 TB new drive....you're at 10x or 20x the available space, for not really much more money.
 
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USAFret is it okay to use PCI to IDE card with this board ? I'm also going to ask to Gigabyte.

I've limitation for new purchase & also have to utilize old HDDs. That's why googling such things.

 
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It should be OK. But it is not cost effective.
 
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IDE hdds slow down boot speeds (detection wait), IDE cards will increase that more

if there IDE there OLD and carry a ~50% chance there already faulty (pending sectors etc)

its also pointless mixing new components with rubbish low end parts - its going to perform like rubbish

just save a few more $$$ and get a new SATA drive for the system

and tell me your going to be using Windows 7 or 8 seriously
 
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