# SATA & PATA living together? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 22, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970 "2005-12-22T08:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/1 "2005-12-22T08:01:17Z")
This may be a stupid question, but I’m on meds, plz humor me. I have a (3) Ide hdds running currently. (1) of them has the OS. The mobo supports (2) SATA drives. Can I install the (2) sata drives with no conflict? Purely storage. No RAID or special setup. Tks ---
**Author:** ![skatanic28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@skatanic28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skatanic28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/2 "2005-12-22T08:13:39Z")
shouldnt be a problem. i had issues with a windows install doing the exact opposite though, putting the o/s on sata and storage on pata. had to disconnect the pata drives while installing to prevent anything from being written to them. its solid now though. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/3 "2005-12-22T08:48:31Z")
no conflicts, and you dont even need to disconnect pata to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/4 "2005-12-22T08:57:57Z")
:tup: Thought so, wanted to 2x check. thanks nyspeed ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/5 "2005-12-22T09:31:04Z")
> [@skatanic28](#): > > shouldnt be a problem. > > i had issues with a windows install doing the exact opposite though, putting the o/s on sata and storage on pata. had to disconnect the pata drives while installing to prevent anything from being written to them. its solid now though. there is an option in your bios to make this issue dissapear, it should be under hard drives and the way the os sees them during install. depends on which bios your using, if i knew i could tell you for future refrence ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/6 "2005-12-22T09:44:44Z")
150mb/s vs 135ish mb/s… eh. For the extra $10 I dunno if i’ll bother. :ponder: ---
**Author:** ![skatanic28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@skatanic28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skatanic28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/7 "2005-12-22T09:48:39Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > there is an option in your bios to make this issue dissapear, it should be under hard drives and the way the os sees them during install. > > depends on which bios your using, if i knew i could tell you for future refrence it was on a gigabyte k8n-pro board using the most recent bios at the time. what would this option be called? ---
**Author:** ![skatanic28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@skatanic28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skatanic28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/8 "2005-12-22T09:53:28Z")
> [@Nikuk](#): > > 150mb/s vs 135ish mb/s… eh. For the extra $10 I dunno if i’ll bother. > > :ponder: i doubt any drive you get will top 100 MB/s anyway. 10 bucks for a clean connector is worth it to me though… ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/9 "2005-12-22T10:12:31Z")
> [@skatanic28](#): > > it was on a gigabyte k8n-pro board using the most recent bios at the time. > what would this option be called? it should be under drives or raid options. i had to set mine to SATA and turn off the raid to get winblows to see the pata drives while installing. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/10 "2005-12-22T10:13:16Z")
> [@Nikuk](#): > > 150mb/s vs 135ish mb/s… eh. For the extra $10 I dunno if i’ll bother. > > :ponder: not worth it at all ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/11 "2005-12-22T10:25:49Z")
> [@skatanic28](#): > > i doubt any drive you get will top 100 MB/s anyway. > > 10 bucks for a clean connector is worth it to me though… > [@BuickGN](#): > > not worth it at all Exactly. While this is just a file server & dl machine, transfer speeds are nice. But I doubt I’ll see the gains anyhow. Not to mention ost files are accessed over a damned router anyhow. lol tks gents -edit- and i already have round ide cables. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/12 "2005-12-22T10:31:19Z")
get raptors if you want blazing speed, it rivals SCSI. ---
**Author:** ![skatanic28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@skatanic28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skatanic28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/13 "2005-12-22T12:31:59Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > it should be under drives or raid options. > > i had to set mine to SATA and turn off the raid to get winblows to see the pata drives while installing. windows could see both the sata and pata drives without a problem. the issue came from writing part of the boot record to the pata drive, even though the o/s is being installed onto the sata drive. it seemed like a fairly common problem when sata boards were first coming out. hopefully things have changed with some of the newer stuff coming out. ---
**Author:** ![skatanic28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@skatanic28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skatanic28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/14 "2005-12-22T12:34:22Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > get raptors if you want blazing speed, it rivals SCSI. have raptors or scsi drives even topped 150 MB/s yet? it seems odd that sataII (300 MB/s) is out even though no drive to my knowledge has surpassed sata1’s capabilties. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/15 "2005-12-22T12:41:28Z")
part of the raptors speed is its big cache and 10k rotational speed, that plays alot on how drives perform, along with the transfer rates ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/16 "2005-12-22T13:00:02Z")
^ word. Thats why I look for 7200rpm 16mb buffers as minimums for my drives. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sata-pata-living-together/5970/17 "2005-12-22T20:13:05Z")
Raptors…Im gonna eventually get a 74gb one for my OS/Games. BTW if anyone is looking for a decent deal on an external HDD,sams club has a simpletech 160gb for $99 .USB 2.0,7200rpm. Good if you like taking your stuff with you,good for porn.😉