SATA Drives Together With PATA?

St0ry

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Can I use SATA drives together with PATA drives? I have two PATA drives in my computer atm and am looking to buy another harddrive.

edit: Also, is there a big difference between 8mb and 16mb cache?
 
If you're asking if you can hook both of them up to the mobo, yes if you have the slots. If you're talking about putting an add-in card on your mobo, yes. Pretty much if you have the connections you can do it and there are even converters for it.

Doing raid between them, yes in software raid, hardware raid depends on mobo but i would advise against that, but i think it is possible with some mobos to do that.
 
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