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IDE and SATA HDD can connect in single mboard

Last answer on Nov 7, 2009 4:27:15 pm GMT reddy, on Nov 7, 2009 11:18:46 am GMT 
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Hello,
can we connect one HDD of IDE(160 GB) and one HDD 0f SATA(500GB) in a single motherboard, there are two (IDE,SATA) plugins available in mother board,Gigabyte moter board,processer 3.00Ghz,is it support....


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 xpcman, on Nov 7, 2009 4:27:15 pm GMT

Yes you can safely use both IDE and SATA drives at the same time.

Good Luck

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