Has anybody with an NF7-S used this device and got any comments on it? For anyone who doesnt know its a parallel to serial ATA converter so you can hook up a PATA 100 device to your mobo using a serial ATA cable.
I haven't used it myself but from what I've heard there's absolutely no performance change, negative or otherwise, from using it.
i suppose an ATA100 drive is an ATA100 drive. I do like the serial cables more than the ribbon ones so i might give it a go.
Yep. I'm guessing there's a tiny amount of lag due to the conversion process in the area of a few nanoseconds or something Just try it out and see what happens. If you get worse performance then you can just put it back on a parallel controller again
I am led to believe its nothing more than a bridge chip on the pcb inside such converters, which in fact some S-ATA drives and controllers have anyway (take the DiamondMax plus 9 S-ATA, available in IDE or S-ATA forms, the S-ATA version uses small bridge chips, and the Highpoint 1520 Rocketraid controller has 2 identical chips between the S-ATA connectors and the HPT272 chip, as neither are 'native' S-ATA), so performance lag must be almost nothing if companies are using similar such bridges to allow a non-native S-ATA drive/controller to use the interface as default
