converting ide/pata to sata hard drive

urshobhit · #11 (**permalink**) 03-10-2009, 06:41 PM

As u knw tht i wanna ugrade my PC which hv only PATA ports.
As per ur reply tht External USB Hard Disk is not better for me as compare to SATA Internal/External HDD.

Now i hv heard about eSATA...,is there any difference b/w SATA n eSATA n which one is better for me amng thm as per requirements of my OLD P-4 1.5 PC with 384MB SD PC133 RAM.

Is there any Difference b/w SATA n eSATA PCI Cards?
If i would buy eSATA PCI card thn which HDD i need to buy( SATA or eSATA)

Digerati · #12 (**permalink**) 03-10-2009, 07:59 PM

The drives are the same, the e if for external. See What is eSATA?

urshobhit · #13 (**permalink**) 04-10-2009, 05:07 PM

sir please tell me one more thing does sata pci card supports esata drive or should i buy sata drive or esata drive and please list some best hdd and pci sata or esata cards . please suggest the best one to me.

urshobhit · #14 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 06:04 PM

and can my pc support 1tb hdd my pc config is compaq presario series 5000 5610ap p4 1.5 384 mb ram intel 845g processor

Digerati · #15 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 08:16 PM

The drives are the same and it should support your a large drive - but you may have to divide it up into smaller partitions. You need to see if the BIOS supports 48-bit LBA.

That said, with only 384 Mb of RAM, performance will never be good.