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[TheFamilyGuy]

does anyone know if you can put a WD raptor hd in a shuttle case?

 

[etp777]

SATA drives, whil using different connectors, are the same size and use the same mounting holes as a standard PATA drive.

My only suggestion would be to make sure that you get/have a model that supports SATA natively. I try to avoid using the PCI slot in those if I can avoid it, as it's cramped around the video card anyways, and taking up that slot helps reduce the airflow around the agp card. Was looking at several this week though that supported SATA, had connectors on the board, and even came with the required power adapter, if memory serves.

 

[TheFamilyGuy]

could you post links to some of them please? The ones i was looking at on newegg didn't state wether they had onboard sata controller.

 

[etp777]

AMD:
SK43G
SN85G4

Intel:
SB61G2
SB62G2
ST61G4
ST61G4B
ST61G4L
SB65G2
SB65G2R
SB75G2 V2
SB75S


These were all pulled from Newegg(my favorite supplier for most things). If you shop by brand and choose Shuttle, Barebones, look about third line down in the descriptions, under IDE, it states whether or not they have SATA