grandtete Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Hi there, Was just wondering if this would work to get sata drives under OS X: As you can see it plugs into a standard IDE port on the motherboard. The adapter converts the IDE port to sata. I believe the adapter is transparent to the system, hense OS X would think its a standard IDE drive... The nice thing is that the harddrive speed drop should be minimal if at all. Plus the adapters are only around £10 What do you think? T Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2901-possible-fix-for-sata-under-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Great. I have the opposite, SATA to IDE converter, Incredible that this converter gets more speed of my PATA drives, I wonder if that converter does anything to the speed of a SATA drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2901-possible-fix-for-sata-under-os-x/#findComment-18520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 Its probably quite minimal. The Hitachi Deskstar I'm running (and a few other SATA drives) use on onboard SATA to IDE converter (may be backwards) and this Deskstar outperforms the Raptor on certain tests. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2901-possible-fix-for-sata-under-os-x/#findComment-18647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miranda363 Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I'd try it for definate. I had a ATA to SATA adaptor and the thing worked like a dream until I made the mistake of buying an SATA drive i noticed a drop in performance immediately so go on give it a bash and for 10 quid you can't go wrong mine costs me £25 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2901-possible-fix-for-sata-under-os-x/#findComment-22935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tivimac Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Great. I have the opposite, SATA to IDE converter, Incredible that this converter gets more speed of my PATA drives, I wonder if that converter does anything to the speed of a SATA drive. DID YOU HAVE CHIPSET INFO about this dongle....Im interested in using one to my IDE drive...in OSX Thanks for your input.... Asus P5GD1-VM Motherboard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2901-possible-fix-for-sata-under-os-x/#findComment-45225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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