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SATA and IDE ?

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FaultyChildSeat

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Does any one know if you can mix and match the two kinds of hard drives? I was looking into getting a WD 120gig SATA hard drive and I also want to use one of my current EIDE hard drives, does any know if this is possible, to have one SATA and one EIDE hard drive running on one mobo together? Any help would be great, thanks!
 
Dont know the answer, but I dont see why not. Its not like one has to be used seperately.
 
Most mobos built within the past six months or so have slots for both IDE and SATA, so there's no reason why you can't. (Even if the board doesn't have any, you can get a SATA add-on card.) If you go that route (buying a SATA drive and keeping one of your IDE drives), make the SATA drive as your primary drive. The wider bandwidth that SATA provides makes the SATA drive (somewhat) faster that its IDE counterpart.
 
What about ABits Serillel device that changes IDE HD' to SATA.

So in theory this means hard drives are built to the SATA Drive standards but are toned down for IDE?
 
Until recently, it was the other way around (SATA drives were built to IDE standards).
 
Sorry for the last post (a little off-topic), but in reality you have two choices: get a mobo with SATA ports or buy a PCI card with SATA ports built in.
 
My main IDE drive is going bad and was wondering if I should go with a SATA drive. Is a SATA drive really that much better, since IDE drives are so cheap? My motherboard does support SATA by the way.
 
SATA cost the same as ide now. The answer is yes. I run two SATA drives in a raid 0 and a WD 80 gig 7200 IDE for additional storage.

The real advantage to SATA right now is the slim cables and jumperless installs While SATA standard provides more throughput on paper , nothing out there takes advantage of it yet and most use bridge chips anyway (Seagate being an exception)

P.S> The WD raptors are an exception not because of the SATA standard but becuase they have a very high rotational speed.
So if your going SATA go for the right reasons
 
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