[hercs]

Hi

I am thinking of upgrading my PC and am thinking of purchasing a new motherboard & a SATA hard drive to go with it.. however I am concerned that since I have 2x IDE hard drive at the moment I am not sure whether it was possible to keep 1 of my IDE drives so that I can use it as a slave & use the new SATA drive as a master or do I need to purchase 2 identical make of drive???(ie..2xSATA OR 2xIDE)

thanks

[DooGie]

Yes hercs. In fact you can keep both of your IDE hard drives. Your new mobo should have 2 SATA ports & 2 IDE ports. At the mo' I'm running an ABIT NF7s-2 and have 2 x SATA drives in RAID 0, 2 x Maxtor IDE drives for storage plus DVD drive & CDRW drive. So go for it.

[Cellar_Dweller]

Doogie hit nail on head...

I have 2 SATA drives and have 2 CDRW on one of the IDE Controllers and can still add up to 2 more if I so desire...

That will allow you up to 6 Devices 2 per IDE channel = 4 and 2 SATA...

[hercs]

[El_Coyote]

you can get a SATA -> PATA converter aswell, so you can use your regular ATA drives with SATA cables.

[Mertsch]

na ... unless you get some of those for free this is the most stupid thing to buy ... you can spend this money much more sensefull on SATA/PATA controllers or just a new and better motherboard