3 HD drives

ants83 · 12 Aug 2006 at 19:15

filled up my two Hard drives on my PC now looking for a third and i think is has to be external because i do not have SATA?any ive got a bit of music and dvds to put on this external drive, will this work without any problems or is there another solution? thanks for any help.

malfunkshun · 12 Aug 2006 at 19:16

If you have a pci slot and some drive bays spare it may well work out cheaper to use a pci ide (or SATA) controller and standard drives.

ants83 · 12 Aug 2006 at 19:18

malfunkshun said:
If you have a pci slot and some drive bays spare it may well work out cheaper to use a pci ide (or SATA) controller and standard drives.

ok i have a spare pci. im on ide so i just get a card and another drive? could i use SATA if i wanted?i would be mixing then is that allowed thanks

ants83 · 12 Aug 2006 at 20:57

so if i buy a Serial ATA 2 Port PCI Card and a SATA hard drive this will work even though i still have 2 ide hard drives?

rpstewart · 12 Aug 2006 at 21:40

In short, yes.