sata hard drive question.

[rago88]

I have 2 IDE hard drives in my pc..
Can I mix/match?
Meaning can I hook up a sata hard drive along with what I have now?

[katzdvd]

Sure; you may need to go into the BIOS to configure which you want to boot first; conversly, some BIOS on later pc's give you an option at boot to hit a certain key to select which HD you want to boot to in multi-boot OS configurations.

But if you are not doing multi boot, it is easy enough. Just connect up & all should work fine for storage drives.
Hope that answered your question.

[Chewy]

if you have sata in your computer shouldn't be any problem

[rago88]

thanks for info..
btw:
someone brought up power consumption with having 3 hard drives, and 2 dvd burners...

I have a 550 watt PS so I assume I'm ok..
[if it's even an issue]

[atifsh]

thanks for info..

[if it's even an issue]

not for ur 550 WATT

[ed klein]

On this computer my mix and match looks like this:

A drive floppy
C primary hard drive SATA 120gb hard drive
D optical IDE drive Plextor 760A dual layer burner
E optical IDE drive Plextor 708A
F optical SATA drive Plextor 716SA
G hard drive partition off drive C (fat 32)