Hardware Tweak For Vista

Note: This particular help/fix is not for everybody

A lot of you out there are probably like me, and had the drives from your old XP machines when you upgraded. In my case, 80GB and 250GB Barracudas. Unfortunately, the mobo in my Acer only has 1 IDE controller on it, and I damn sure wanted to use them. I set up the system initially with the DVD and extra CDRW I had laying around removed, and just the HDD’s in place. Obviously they don’t have the transfer rate of my 3Gb/s SATA II drive, so suffice it to say I got the low transfer rates a number of people have mentioned. Now, I wanted to use my hard drives AND the DVD&CDRW, so I started looking around for an answer. I came across this…

IDE to SATA Adapter

Cheap and kicked the transfer rate up to 1.5Gb/s. Everything passes through invisibly, BIOS sees them with zero problems. Same with Vista. Transferring a 4.7GB folder without the adapters on my system took about a hour or so. Took roughly 2-3 mins WITH them. Hell of a boost. I HIGHLY recommend these adapters guys and gals if you have the same problem I did. This is one of those rare, I’ll be damn, something actually works as advertised moments.