Eide Ata
Posted on Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 11:18 pmAdding a EIDE Hard Drive to a Serial ATA Hard Drive Motherboard?
I recently purchased a new desktop PC with a G33 motherboard. It came with a new 500 meg hard drive. I had intended to install the EIDE hard drive from my old PC. Unfortunately, when I opened the case, I found my new PC used SATA interface drives instead of EIDE.
So is it as simple as adding an EIDE controller card to an open PCI slot and connecting up my old drive or what?
To add insult to injury, the new PC has (gasp!) Vista.
I’d really like to have both drives in the PC. The old drive has about 100 gig of documents and data that I’d like to keep. It also gives me a PC with 3/4ths of a Terabyte of storage. Cool huh!
There’s 2 ways to do this.
1: Buy a controller card and hook it all up. (Can be difficult sometimes, but it is far from impossible and almost certainly the cheaper, faster way to go)
2: Get an IDE USB hard drive case and run your 500gig as an external. (A little pricier {$25-$80 or so} but much easier.) However, the USB option will sacrifice a few megabytes per second on the transfer speeds.
I hope this helps!!!
Inside of Hard Drive