HDD Question

[tntcoder]

Hey,

I have an old pc which is about 500mhz or something similar, I want to put some big HDDs in it and i assume that because its old it has that strange IDE HDD size limit thing? I have XP (just) running on the box. If i wanted to use SATA drives on it, and got a SATA 2 port pci card, would I notice any poor performance in terms of reading speed of the hdds?

Thanks
Jack

 

[tntcoder]

Hi, what i had in mind was a media center/stream server. But i guess its a bit of a problem if i will experience a bottleneck using PCI for sata