Price of SATA to PATA converter? ? ?

[aritrap]

I am a student and have a 4year old rig.
I have a measly 40GB hard disk and want to buy a new hard disk. Since my board only supports parallel ATA hard disk and those are very hard to get i want to buy a serial ATA hard disk and a converter using which i will be able to connect the SATA harddisk to a PATA port.

I want to buy a SATA hard disk since i dont want to buy a new hard disk when i finally upgrade after another 1.5yr.
Please dont tell me to upgrade my whole system now as my father will not give me the money.

Can anyone tell me the price of the SATA to PATA converter?

 

[Gigacore]

is there really a converter like this? If yes can I get a converter to connect my PATA hdd to SATA port of my mobo using the converter?

 

[Faun]

yup there is one, someone wrote abt it before

*www.lanbitinc.com/images/SATA_Convert.jpg

 

[topgear]

^^ Yup I was quoted Rs. 70 for those back in june 2007.
But after some months when I enquired the price on another shop ( as convertor was not available on that previous shop ) it was Rs. 550. So I've not bought one.
Also I 've heard that those convertors sometimes have problems with Hdd's

 

[saqib_khan]

Since my board only supports parallel ATA hard disk and those are very hard to get

It's not as u said Mr, PATA HD r available easily. Enquire at 5-6 shops. You will get it.