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.
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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