Hey, just a quick question... I recently bought a 250gb EIDE hard drive and they mistakenly sent me a 250gb SATA hard drive instead. Now I know they have SATA to IDE converter cards that will allow my current system to use this hard drive (as I have an older AMD Athlon).
Should I go that route instead of sending it back for the original EIDE that I ordered?
I was only thinking this because I eventually plan to upgrade my system with a barebones unit later this year, so why get rid of an SATA drive when I could just use a converter for now and then use it without one in my new system?
My only question is that would this converter slow down the access times any? Is it worth it to have an SATA drive that I could use in the very near future?
Thanks!
Should I go that route instead of sending it back for the original EIDE that I ordered?
I was only thinking this because I eventually plan to upgrade my system with a barebones unit later this year, so why get rid of an SATA drive when I could just use a converter for now and then use it without one in my new system?
My only question is that would this converter slow down the access times any? Is it worth it to have an SATA drive that I could use in the very near future?
Thanks!