Anyone know if a SATA PC will run a IDE hardrive and???

[MilesMax]

I'm thinking about buying a new PC it's harddrive is SATA, but I wanted to install my old harddrive which is the old IDE.

Does anyone know if the IDE will work in the new PC??

I'm buying http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16883103034 for my daughter for $394... is it a good deal??

Thanks,

MilesMax

 

[crispy2010]

I am sure the cd drive runs off of ide so it will have support for ide drives!

 

[MilesMax]

thank you.

 

[Harvey]

If the board you want to use has IDE connectors, it should run your IDE drives.

 

[Zepper]

Actually some computers (some Dell models for sure) don't have any PATA (use PATA to differentiate from SATA as both are actually IDE technology) channels now. Several companies besides Plextor have started making SATA optical drives to supply this OEM market. But that Acer the OP linked has at least one PATA channel as you can see the wide cable in the picture gallery.
. IAC, you can get PATA to SATA adapters that work great with hard drives but can be iffy with optical drives. Here is one from Rosewill - I mention this one as it's the only (inexpensive) one that I'm sure comes with the Y cable so you can power both the adapter card (requires a floppy size power connector) and the drive from one PSU power connector.
. Another option is to add some PATA ports via an add-on PCI adapter (plugs into a PCI slot and usually adds two PATA channels for up to 4 drives) - a good idea if you plan to use more than one PATA drive or a mix of HDDs and CD/DVD drives as one of these costs less than two PATA to SATA adapters and works well with all types of drives. I use the Syba SD-ATA133R. It has RAID capability too but you can ignore it if you don't need to use it. You can occasionally get a lemon but generally they are very reliable and flexible.

.bh.