Have Both SATA and IDE Drives in a Computer ?

[matrunner]

i have samsung 80gb IDE hdd as first boot with xp installed in it...now want to connect a 80gb sata hdd (seagate). can i have both sata and ide hdd in a single computer...my motherboard has four slots for sata connection...now i am using 1ly ide hdd connected as primary master...

can i connect a new sata hdd? will it conflict r crash the hdd of both ide and sata....not sure whether an connect r shud not...

help me out...


my system config r intel 865G orig motherboard...256mb ram...pentium processor 2.66ghz win xp

[snowmonkey]

There shouldn't be any problem with having both SATA and IDE hard drive on the same PC.....my son's PC has both types of drive in it and no issues so far(120GB IDE and 320GB SATA)


Cheers

[fritzi93]

No problem, there are two IDE hard drives and one SATA hard drive in the computer I'm typing this on. It won't be long before IDE drives are legacy hardware, if they aren't already.

When I built this computer nearly a year ago, IDE drives were more numerous and cheaper than SATA drives. No more. At NewEgg, for example there are 38 IDE drives currently on offer, while they offer 69 SATA drives.

I intend soon to put a couple more SATA drives in this computer, and save my last few IDE drives for use in my external enclosure, which I use for backups.