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Halcyon · 06-02-2005, 15:18

Yeah I'd reccomend you get a SATA hard drive.
Plugging an IDE hard drive on to SATA will not really give you advantages.
If you wish, you can leave the Hard drive in there as IDE and then add a SATA drive so you have two drives.
A Sata drive will have its own much thinner data cable that plugs into the Sata connector on the motherboard and its own type of power connector.

06-02-2005, 15:18	#4
Halcyon Hello ! Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Somewhere Services: Sky, AppleTV, Netflix Posts: 16,786	Re: Ide HDD to sata Yeah I'd reccomend you get a SATA hard drive. Plugging an IDE hard drive on to SATA will not really give you advantages. If you wish, you can leave the Hard drive in there as IDE and then add a SATA drive so you have two drives. A Sata drive will have its own much thinner data cable that plugs into the Sata connector on the motherboard and its own type of power connector. __________________ . -