Ultra-ATA 133 or Serial Ata
 

I was wondering whether it is worth changing over my 80Gb Maxtor 7200rpm 2md cache Harddrive from a Ultra-ATA 133 setup to a Serial ATA setup. Is it really worth it? any real improvements other than Windows Loading times? My crappy Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 with no SATA connection, are the SATA conversion sockets any good? I saw one on dabs http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/comp...quicklinx=2HL9

thanks in adv

Mak

If your motherboard hasn't got a sata connection, how are you planning to connect the sata drive? The adapter is intended for attaching a pata drive to a sata controller (which you don't have).

If your motherboard had a sata controller, i would say the upgrade ata133 2mb cache > sata 150 8mb cache is worth it.
Attaching a pata drive to a sata connector using the abit serrilel adapter won't gain you any speed.

If I were you I'd sell your motherboard + HD and buy a sata disk + sata capable nforce2 board.

eh, i wouldnt bother, and just wait and get sata with your next upgrade, it really wouldnt make much of a diff for all of the cost/ trouble right now