Both ide and sata drives can work together on the same system. But remember if you ever have to reinstall Windows on a sata drive first unplug any ide to avoid seeing the installer place the boot files and mbr information on that. You want the sata as a stand alone with the ide for storage if larger or for slaving a drive to recover files from an older system.
Here the last ide hard drive is now gone while the cd writer is still ide requiring that one round ide cable. Otherwise when that gets replaced sometime only the thin sata data cables easily tucked aside will allow even better air flow. You can always keep an ide drive onhand for a spare or restoring an old system at some point if you run across one that needs a drive. But for new builds at this time sata is the trend.
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