[Ham-Computers] Mixing hard drive types?

[Philip, KO6BB]

Hi All,

I'm getting ready to obtain still another hard drive for my computer to 
augment those already in it (2 80 Gig and a 325 Gig, all SATA drives).  I'll 
be looking for something bigger than 500GB (probably a 750 or so).  The 
present drives are all SATA, and I have one more empty SATA slot, actually 2 
as one 80GB drive is the spare-backup drive for drive "C", normally not 
plugged in.

Anyway, I suspect that the new drive will ALSO be a SATA drive. My 
motherboard supports either SATA (4 ports) or IDE (4 drives, two used for 
the CD ROM drives).

Question: Should I find a much better buy on an IDE drive than a SATA, does 
anyone foresee a problem hooking it up to the 2nd IDE "Master" port 
(presently unused).  Since I'm not a "gamer", ultimate speed isn't really a 
factor.  The 80 GB "C" drive contains the operating system (XP-Pro SP3)and 
all the various programs and utilities, "D" drive is used for data and file 
storage only (mostly MP3 Old Time Radio Files).

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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