Win7 on a PATA drive on a SATA hackintosh?

[Jotokun]

I've been wanting to add another hard drive to my box that I could use with Windows 7, so I could do my work on OS X and gaming in Win7. Thus far I've been waiting for the price of SSDs to drop before doing this, but I found an old 320GB 7200RPM pata drive in some of my old stuff. I was wondering,

1) Would it cause any issues with OS X to put this in as a Windows drive? I'm not so much worried about the OSes as I am that OS X may not like PATA drives in general, I dont want to break sleep or something like that.

2) Seeing as this is a PATA drive, how big do you think the performance hit on it would be over a regular SATA drive? Would I be better off just getting a cheap hard drive, or would an old PATA drive perform well enough to use until the price of SSD drives drop?

Specs are in sig if needed.

 

[RehabMan]

I've been wanting to add another hard drive to my box that I could use with Windows 7, so I could do my work on OS X and gaming in Win7. Thus far I've been waiting for the price of SSDs to drop before doing this, but I found an old 320GB 7200RPM pata drive in some of my old stuff. I was wondering,

1) Would it cause any issues with OS X to put this in as a Windows drive? I'm not so much worried about the OSes as I am that OS X may not like PATA drives in general, I dont want to break sleep or something like that.

2) Seeing as this is a PATA drive, how big do you think the performance hit on it would be over a regular SATA drive? Would I be better off just getting a cheap hard drive, or would an old PATA drive perform well enough to use until the price of SSD drives drop?

Specs are in sig if needed.

Are you going to find a PATA (PCI card?) or something to hook the drive to? Because it seems like your motherboard doesn't have PATA... Most modern boards do not provide PATA.

 

[Jotokun]

Are you going to find a PATA (PCI card?) or something to hook the drive to? Because it seems like your motherboard doesn't have PATA... Most modern boards do not provide PATA.

My motherboard does have a PATA connector on it, I actually used it before to update my bios. I didn't leave the drive connected though because I was concerned it might cause problems with OS X.

Edit: Never mind, I'm being stupid in asking this. I've got time, I should just try it. Worst case scenario, I pull the drive out.

 

[RehabMan]

My motherboard does have a PATA connector on it, I actually used it before to update my bios. I didn't leave the drive connected though because I was concerned it might cause problems with OS X.

Edit: Never mind, I'm being stupid in asking this. I've got time, I should just try it. Worst case scenario, I pull the drive out.

That's weird because I didn't see one listed here: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4279#sp
And I don't see one in the manual, page 7 (motherboard layout).

PATA are huge connectors with unwieldy ribbon cables.
You don't see them very often on modern hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment

 

[Jotokun]

That's weird because I didn't see one listed here: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4279#sp
And I don't see one in the manual, page 7 (motherboard layout).

PATA are huge connectors with unwieldy ribbon cables.
You don't see them very often on modern hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment

That's because you're right. Turns out my memory was faulty, I used an old notebook SATA drive that has since died to update my bios, not a PATA drive. Wish I would have realized that before I opened up my machine, guess I'll be getting a cheap sata drive. Thanks for your time.