HD Sata and HD IDE.., could they work...?

Published on August 16, 2006 By TYCUS In Hard Drives

hi everyone!

i'm about to buy a new sata HD, but i already have two HD with connection IDE(you know.., the normal slow HD, with the big cable that says master and slave), and i was asking my self that if it is possible to have a sata HD and a IDE HD at the same time in the same computer? how does the CPU will know which one is the slave and which one the master HD? and about this Sata HD, it's a good speed 7200 of buffer(becouse i saw one with 10000, but it is way too expensive

)?

I need your help before i buy something...

thankx!

Comments (Page 3)

MadDeez

on Aug 16, 2006

just don't ask him to swap out his cpu heatsink

starkers

on Aug 17, 2006

WoW......you could take over the world with that PC jafo

Nope, but he is working on the design of a Neptune probe and rockets on it...and will probably set up camp there.

Kevin_C

on Aug 22, 2006

and 870gig of drives

Bah!! 4 X 320GB SATA II = 1.28 TB RAID 0.

That's my file server, my main PC has 2 X 250 GB SATA II. Gots to have lots of space for all my SD apps and skins!!

scorpio-logic

on Aug 28, 2006

And I have trouble filling up my two 160 GB SATA drives! I wouldn't know what to do with all the storage JAFO has. Question SIXX and Kevin: what mobo would bring in that whoppin 150mb transfer speed? Mine boasts 122mb peak and 76mb average.

Dr Guy

on Aug 28, 2006

And I have trouble filling up my two 160 GB SATA drives! I wouldn't know what to do with all the storage JAFO has.

And how do you back it up? Storage has outstripped backup medium by far!

Jafo

on Aug 28, 2006

I just hit the one Terrabyte....networked to another 130gig on 2 other machines...

SIXX21

on Aug 28, 2006

Hey scorpio-logic.......long time

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=244

Jafo

on Aug 28, 2006

SIXX21 ...I edited your link to make it 'work'....all that was needed is a 'space' after the end of the link...

SIXX21

on Aug 28, 2006

Thanks jafo……..the man who never sleeps

ToeJo

on Aug 28, 2006

I run a 200gb IDE system drive, (2) 250GB in RAID for 500gb total, (1) Lacie 500GB Big Disk on firewire 800 and (1) 250gb Lacie D2 on Firewire 800. Plus 3 IDE DVD recorders and 1 External DVD recorder on firewire 400. I edit a lot of video and am running out of space. But it all works great.

Fuzzy Logic

on Aug 29, 2006

Mine is 1x250Gb S300, 1x500Gb S300, 1x250Gb IDE

The only thing to remember with that config is when you boot from cd it sees the IDE first. I forgot. I was merrily formatting C:/ only to realize (too late) it was one of my back-ups I was formatting not my Windows partition... duh!

beto666

on Sep 13, 2006

How's that Super Wizop? You mean there are same letters for the drives, i.e. one C: for the IDE and another C: for the SATA drive? That is because, I suppose when you assign a drive to be the Master having the OS booting from it, it is automatically assigned the C: letter, am I correct? I am upgrading for a MoBo with IDE and SATA connectors and before I begin would like to know it better. Thanx!

Fuzzy Logic

on Sep 13, 2006

The drives look different from within DOS, it changes the drive letters so the IDE primary reads as C: instead of the SATA. It's best to ignore the drive letter and look at the label.

beto666

on Sep 15, 2006

You mean, SATA drives are shown with SATA label IDs?
Thanx again.

TYCUS

on Sep 18, 2006

today is d'day! i finally get the HD and to night i'll install it + a new DVD RW driver!

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