Do you have to choose HDD connector before puchrase?

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Jamin43

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I've only worked with IDE connection for HDD's in the past with my Dells. I had a purchase set to go tomorrow that is getting rearranged b/c my Dell 2400 SUCKS and is not very PC builder friendly as far as a box goes. No upgrades beyond RAM for that puppy.

1) Anyway - after looking at the drive on sale - I saw the description says " sata " HDD drive. So When I purchase a HDD, I thought they came with an IDE and SATA - and I'd choose which connection to use based on my PC setup. But from the looks of that - I had it wrong. It appears that you choose a HDD based on the connections you want to use. As in - if I order a drive that's IDE for my current PC - with the intentions of using it in a future build as a SATA drive - that's not gonna work?

2) If I have to choose ahead of time - is it pretty much a given that you go with a SATA connection for a new build today - and don't consider anything else in terms of connecting MOBO to the HDD?

Do I have that right - or do the drives come with multiple connection options.

Thanks
 
Your right, it's SATA or IDE. Mobo's have come with SATA as standard for quite a while now.

So it won't work with your current PC. You can still get IDE drives, but most mobo's now only have the one IDE slot. Hope that helps, Doug.
 
For a while when SATA was first becoming popular you saw some drives with both SATA and IDE connectors, but I don't think that anyone is making them anymore.
 
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