[Ham-Computers] Adding an IDE hard drive to a SATA system

[Frank]

Dave 'Doc' Corio wrote:
>    The new PC I got has an SATA hard drive and I was hoping to add my 
> older IDE drive in order to do a dual boot and archive system. Is this 
> possible?
> 

Certainly, but you need to add an IDE controller card 
(fairly inexpensive item).  IDE is a parallel interface. 
SATA is a serial interface.  I guess serial is cheaper 
judging from recent prices on large SATA hard drives.

You might want to compare the price of an additional SATA 
hard drive to the cost and trouble of fooling with the IDE. 
  Especially if the old IDE is less than 10 gig.  Might also 
remember that it is old.  To me it does not make sense to 
archive stuff on the least reliable storage available.

Regards,
Frank Kamp