SATA and IDE

[striker85]

Is it possbile to run both SATA and IDE hard drives simultaneously? I have a couple IDE drives but want to incrementally upgrade to SATAII. Would it be possible to run one SATAII drive with an IDE drive at the same time without conflicts?

[cf79]

Yup. I'm not sure how you are set-up, but I needed to hook up some IDE drives to transfer some information. I had to tell the bios to load off the SATAs because on default it was grabbing the master IDE. But they will work simultaneously.

[striker85]

Ok, thanks

[nd4spdbh2]

its just like running an SATA hd. and an IDE optical... it works just fine... may need to change a setting or 2 in the bios or some jumpers on the back of the hd, but it ill work just fine.

[Mattman]

Heck, some mobos even allow you to set up a RAID array across both IDE and SATA.

[twEEkerAreUs]

It should work just fine, seen many many setups come in like this before so no conflicts. I'm about to buy a Raptor myself and it will be put in a system with 4 other IDE HDDs.

[TDubbs05]

i'm running 2 ide hd's, 2 satas, 2 ide hd's in external enclosures and it runs just like it should. mobo's are built for it so all you gotta worry bout is that your booting off the right drive/partition.

[Neffirithion]

I had the same question, Thanks for answering it before I had to bother to ask... But just a little add in question. Does that kind of set up have any major speed decreases? since it has to work over two types of input?

Thanks in advance!
Matt

[Maviryk]

I'm running a pair of SATA drives in Raid0 on one controller, and 3 storage drives on PATA on a different one. All it takes is a BIOS setting.

Just don't try to Run Raid0 on a pair of PATA drives on the same cable. Better yet, don't even run Raid0 on IDE drives at all...