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Getting a new HDD, mixing IDE and SATA?

steveland? · 2005-09-10 12:54:05

Hi, I've got a Mobo that supports SATA and IDE and I've got an IDE drive installed in my PC but I'm looking to get a nice huge capacity drive soon and I was wondering if I could have both a SATA and an IDE drive installed or am I going to have to go for another IDE drive The motherboard is an ABit Max2 NT7

10-09-2005 12:54pm

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steveland?

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Hi,
I've got a Mobo that supports SATA and IDE and I've got an IDE drive installed in my PC but I'm looking to get a nice huge capacity drive soon and I was wondering if I could have both a SATA and an IDE drive installed or am I going to have to go for another IDE drive

The motherboard is an ABit Max2 NT7

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#2 10-09-2005 1:58pm

sceptre

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If your mobo supports both there shouldn't be any worries at all about mixing and matching - it should be why it supports both after all.

I'm sure someone will pipe up and say it's definitely possible on your particular board but I can't see a single reason why not.

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#3 10-09-2005 3:27pm

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I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to do this as long as you have the suitable connector type free on your motherboard. If you do have the option of getting either, I'd say get SATA. Not because there is any huge performance difference, but simply because it is the newer technology, plus of course the narrower cables used with SATA are tidier than even a rounded IDE cable. Another reason might be that SATA drives can be obtained in even larger capacities, there are 500Gigabyte SATA drives out now, whereas the largest IDE drive I have seen is about 300.

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#4 10-09-2005 8:01pm

Padraig Mor

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I've a SATA Raptor and an IDE Maxtor on a Gigabyte board. No problems.

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#5 10-09-2005 8:05pm

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is there such thing as an IDE to SATA connecter as i have an old IDE drive i would like to connect to my new MOBO but there is only one IDE port and my disc drives use that

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#6 10-09-2005 8:09pm

Michael Collins

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Not in stock at the moment but this is what you want: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=118375&cks=SER

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#7 10-09-2005 8:12pm

Matthewthebig

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Thank you very much

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#8 10-09-2005 9:39pm

duridian

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Matthew there's a guy selling a couple of those IDE to SATA adaptors on the For Sale forum here

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