Advantage of putting an EIDE drive onto a SATA interface? None, actually. There was one, about 18 months ago: SATA interfaces were up and coming on mainboards, but SATA drives were very hard to come by. So by using a converter you could plug a PATA drive into a SATA connector. Useful when your mainboard has run out of PATA connectors. I my system of those days, I had a DVD player and a CD rewriter (both PATA) and two PATA disks. When I wanted to add another disk, I had to use the SATA interface on the mainboard, since the PATA interfaces were full. Then it came in quite handy. I seriously doubt whether those converters are still available. By the way, most SATA drives are actually PATA drives with the converter built right into the box. Only a few are "true SATA" Even those Raptors have ordinary PATA electronics inside, and a Marvel converter chip. Those Marvel chips can get very hot during operation. Be sure to cool SATA drives! An extra fan is no luxury.

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