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Is IDE and SATA at the same time possible?
Ok, so I'm at Best Buy fighting the crowds trying to find an isle that isn't crammed full of people. I end up standing in front of the hard drives. Scanning the shelves for nothing in particular and I spot a Seagate SATA 320 Gig hard drive for $59.99.....bargain price. Heck, it's $90.00 at www.tigerdirect.com , anyways I bought it.
I currently sport a 120 gig Seagate that's IDE. When I purchased my motherboard I intentionally made sure it supported both IDE and SATA. My question is........can I take out the IDE drive, put in the SATA drive and install windows on it and then put the IDE back in with the SATA and start dragging files to the new drive???
Any help would be greatly appreciated before I start experimenting and fry my board or a drive. : )
~Hairysun~
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Yes, you can.
I have both a SATA Raptor, and an old 80 gig IDE drive I use to store all my media files on. Haven't had any issues with swapping files between the two.
Ah...good to hear. Thanks for the quick reply.
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The only limitation is you can't combine SATA and IDE in a RAID configuration.
Yep....that double read speed RAID configuration would be nice. Figured out that my MB only supports 150 Gb/s instead of the 300 Gb/s the drive is capable of. Dammit man. Oh well, my socket 939 is a bit dated. I need to pick up new MB/CPU/MEM for all the sweet next gen MMOs that are gonna flood the market in 2008. Wait a minute........never mind....
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