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Well atm I am building a Q6600 Video Editing machine for a professor of mine. ATM he wants to still use from 4-6 of his old IDE drives since they probably have a lot of his information on them. I was wondering which way I should go about this since I only have 1 IDE slot on my P5K-E board but i have 5 free SATA slots as well as 2 external esata slots. Should I just get a PCI IDE expansion card or get the little adapter for each drive that converts it from IDE to SATA

Is there any downside of either option? I am not looking to raid anything, just to get the drives working.

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Hi,

go for an IDE pci controller card. It's cheap, and will cost a lot less than 4 to 6 ide-sata convertor.

Or tell him to buy a 400 or 500 gb sata hd to stock all his data.

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Less adapters is better from my point of view. The more adapters involved the more cahnces of something not working like it is supposed to. I would prefer a PCI PATA card, and that would take care of four of the drives.

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