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you would want to keep 1 optical on your main ide to boot from as pci cards will need drivers to install xp on,but basically the answer is yes,as long as the card chip sets are different you can add as many as you board allows,I have 2 of my sata drives rigged up to a back plate sata converter turning them into external,my board came with this converter,one of the cards on ebuyer has one internal and one external,as long as the drive has the the sata power connector and you have bought the correct leads these external drives are hot swapable