I just filled my 120 GB IDE hard drive, and I need a new one. I do have SATA on my motherboard and was wondering if I bought a SATA drive, would it interface well with my other IDE drive without messing with a RAID card or anything like that. Thanks
2006-12-28 05:09:29 · 6 answers · asked by Kevin W 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
This will depend on your bios.
My bios allows me to use any combination, but I have to select the combination I want.
I have 2 sata drives and an IDE and selected the option that allows all drives to work.
Check your documentation for your bios, you should be able to find what you need there to determine if it will work or not.
2007-01-01 01:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by heavster 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
definite, A SATAII and IDE may well be used at the same time in a gadget. the IDE is often plug with units like IDE perplexing disk, and optical Drives. As recently motherboard no longer many grant alot of IDE slots, consequently many human beings will change to SATA or SATA II to liberate the IDE slots for their optical Drives to make the main of it. the SATA II is speedier honestly yet do endure in innovations something in innovations, that's merge in a gadget. It would not skill that utilising a SATA II in a gadget , it truly is going to deny IDE. consequently, the respond is definite, you ought to use a laptop while boot up at as quickly as could have the skill to bump into the numerous perplexing disk and hardwares that's fastened in to the motherboard and different areas of the gadget. the BIOS would not study the perplexing wares put in as a guy or woman. it reads all.
2016-10-28 13:33:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No problem.
I do suggest that you eventually move you OS & programs over to the SATA drive & use the IDE strictly for data storage.
This will considerably speed up you PCs performance....especially if you are using SATA 2.
regards,
Philip T
2006-12-28 05:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have an IDE and a SATA hard drive on my machine with no problems.
2006-12-28 05:11:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IDE and SATA will work together fine with no problems
2006-12-28 05:21:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they can...Depends on your bios. :) I have a TB in my home machine on both and they co-habitate just fine
2006-12-28 05:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋