Ide-->sata

[BarePaw]

I want to put a new 500GB hard drive in my computer. I was looking at a Hitachi drive. The SATA version looks better than the IDE version. If I put an adapter on my motherboard to make it accept the SATA drive, would it work properly? Would there be a problem running it as a slave to a smaller IDE drive?

 

[Bobo]

The adapter will work just fine, you should not have any problems with master/slave assignments

 

[The_Other_One]

Yeah, there are adaptors that'd probably do fine, but I've heard of some issues with them. If at all possible, I'd get an actual SATA controller, or an IDE drive.