I have been tooling with the idea of either upgrading my current rig with another larger hdd or building another computer. AS I look at all the hdds, I am contemplating buying a SATA drive for the new one, and IDE for the old one pending on which direction I go. The problem I am asking about is whether you can have both IDE and SATA drives in the same computer. Do you have to have the SATA only as raid and IDE and Primary? Could the IDE be set to slave for storage? I am just trying to strech my dollar not getting stuck with a large drive that I will have to keep in an old computer before I possibly jump to the 64 bit with SATA and possibly pc express video cards. I know I dont technically need the greatest but I want to invest for long term upgrade or just bite the bullitt and build super computer. 🙂
Any bad info on SATA? IS it really that much better? What I have seen makes pc building and design a dream.
