are some motherboards meant to work with different hard drives (IDE or SATA)?? (1 Viewer)

[N.U.G.]

just wondering because it would explain a few things for me if so

thanks!

 

[fatmuscle]

yep

and some worth with both!

 

[N.U.G.]

ok cool

I have a feeling that my motherboard was meant for IDE HDD but me (not knowing) asked for a SATA HDD and i think they put some funky cable in to make them work together BUT it keeps stuffing up

does that sound possible or am i tripping?

 

[fatmuscle]

sounds right

you can most likely swap it

SATA is prob more exp$ than pata

my market pricing isn't the best

 

[Collin]

Most mainstream mobos released in the last 2-3 years should support both PATA and SATA drives. My 2 year old ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe is currently running a 6 year old 40GB PATA drive as an OS host, with a 250GB Seagate SATA as storage.

SATA can be marginally more expensive than equivalent PATA drives, but generally the price difference is negligible nowadays.

 

[z600]

PATA (IDE) is still supported by some boards but it's bloody loud.

SATA-fast, nice and quite

 

[Collin]

Yeah. I fail to see how PATA drives are 'bloody loud'.

 

[andykillz]

Well if you have a SATA motherboard and you have a PATA HDD. You can purchase a converter adapater. One came with my Gigabyte 8ANXPD motherboard.