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while back, we reviewed the Shuttle AS45GTR motherboard which was the first
to introduce Serial ATA to the market. We are now starting to see
other motherboard manufacturers releasing SATA capable boards. What we
haven't seen much of yet are the next generation hard drives that sport the new
interface. We are still skeptical as to how much better will this
new interface be over IDE. Sure, a major plus is the smaller cable it
uses but how about performance? We at ExtremeMhz discovered a neat
little adapter supplied by
PCMicroStore that will convert current IDE hard
drives to next generation Serial ATA. How will they compare in
performance? Let's find out!
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In the package you will find the small adapter
and a power cable.
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Above we have some closeup pics of the adapter. You have your
serial connector, power connector and jumper for ATA 100/133mhz.
Setup
Setting up the drive in Serial ATA mode was
somewhat tricky. First, we needed to enable RAID in the BIOS and
select SATA as the channel to use as shown below:
We then had to download the latest Highpoint
RAID drivers from Shuttle in order to get it working properly.
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