How to determine what hard drive is compatible my motherboard

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hello this is the specs of storage i cant determine whether it can support IDE HDD OR SATA HDD OR BOTH OF THEM.PLEASE help me also in determining the storage for new knowledge also

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NVIDIA MCP61P Single Chipset :
4 * Serial ATA2 3Gb/s connectors
Supports HDDs with RAID 0,1,0+1 functions
1 * Ultra DMA 133 / 100 / 66 IDE connector
 
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4 * Serial ATA2 3Gb/s connectors
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This means your PC supports up to four SATA devices (including HDDs and CD/DVD drives).

1 * Ultra DMA 133 / 100 / 66 IDE connector
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This means your PC can support up to two IDE drives.

In general, you want SATA. No reason to go IDE; the drives are now more expensive and they're slower.

Make sure your power supply has enough connectors, and that you've got enough SATA/IDE cables.
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4 * Serial ATA2 3Gb/s connectors
Click to expand...
This means your PC supports up to four SATA devices (including HDDs and CD/DVD drives).

1 * Ultra DMA 133 / 100 / 66 IDE connector
Click to expand...
This means your PC can support up to two IDE drives.

In general, you want SATA. No reason to go IDE; the drives are now more expensive and they're slower.

Make sure your power supply has enough connectors, and that you've got enough SATA/IDE cables.
 
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Each IDE port can support both a master and a slave drive, using a cable like this:
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