Installing SATA hard drive to system with 2 ATA Hd's...

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  1. Blighter

    Blighter Regular member

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    Hi guys,

    I currently have to 250gb ATA Hard drives installed on my system...can't install any more IDE hard drives obviously...

    Is it, however, possible to install a S-ATA hard drive, without having to remove either of the IDE hard drives?

    Cheers,
    Blighter
     
    Blighter, Apr 26, 2006
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  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    yes if have extra power connector. if motherboard not have onboard sata controller than get a pci sata card
     
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    Morph416 Active member

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    Along with ddp's advice, if the board doesn't support SATA natively (onboard SATA connectors) you still have a choice to run either. You can purchase as ddp suggested, an SATA or PATA PCI controller board.
     
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  4. boxwrench

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    I'm running a pair of each on my Amd system....no problems at all!

    Best of luck!
     
    boxwrench, Apr 26, 2006
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  5. Blighter

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    Ok cool. I know my motherboard supports S-ATA drives so should be alright. I just didn't know if i was able to have 2 IDE drives and and S-ATA drive at the same time. I thought there might have been a problem with the whole master/slave thing, seeing as how S-ATA drives don't need this. Looks like i'm gonna be upgrading from 500gb to 750gb then!
     
    Blighter, Apr 28, 2006
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