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Mixing Hard Drives

Discussion in 'Windows - General discussion' started by donewell, Jan 17, 2009.

  1. donewell

    donewell Regular member

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    I have just got another computer with a 80 gig sata hard drive. I want to use it as aback up system. I have 2 120 ide p-ata hard drives kicking around. Can i put them in with the sata. The moboard is a gigabyte ga-81pe1000, It has pri and secondary ide plugs and 2 sata plugs
     
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    Yes, you can mix and match as long as you have the right type of connectors. On my media pc I have 3 IDE and 2 sata drives running in perfect harmony.
     
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    Okay, Thanks for the help!!!
     
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