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IDE to SCSI Converters?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-well-do-they-work dept.

ericdano asks: "Addonics has announced a pair of SCSI solutions, which convert common ATAPI devices and IDE hard drives to high-speed SCSI devices on all Windows, Macintosh, and Linux-based computers: the IDE-SCSI converter ($100) for hard drives and the ATAPI-SCSI converter ($110) for ATAPI-based CDRW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-ROM or CD-ROMs. The company has also announced a high-performance single-channel Ultra160 SCSI PCI host controller ($170) with 160MB/sec. data throughput. How safe are these products?"

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  1. Yeah, right... by joto · · Score: 3, Insightful
    which convert common ATAPI devices and IDE hard drives to high-speed SCSI devices

    Yeah, right. By putting my old IDE disk in this controller it will be faster? Right.

    Not that it couldn't be useful, but this is marketroid speak at its worst...

  2. Too expensive by samjam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    at $100 a pop?

    I'm not going to bother to convert "just one" drive, I'll want to buy a few, but no way am I spending $400 on that.

    $50 is more like it and more within the impulse purchase range for interest users.

    I'd pay $100 if each device supported multiple and could control more than one IDE devices (and no it doesn't have to be IDE master/slave, but I wouldn't object)

    I'll wait till the price comes down I think, if IDE hasn't moved over to out-of-order command completion by then. If it has then I won't need to bother at all.

    Sam

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    blog.sam.liddicott.com
  3. IDE drives with SCSI like features by Drakino · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The new line of IBM drives (I thought they got out, but apparently not) offer features like 8mb cache, and tag command queuing. While SCSI will still beat IDE in some way or another, IDE is getting closer.

    As everyone else has said though, shoehorning IDE into SCSI won't change much. But, it does have one advantage that I can see. It might be cheeper to get one of these converters for an old SCSI system, like older Macs.

  4. nothing new by Eugene · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have been using similar product for almost a year now.. from Acard Technology they are the one that produce the chipset for Addonics I think. I don't have any problem with it so far.