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have an sata drive coexist with an ide/ata drive should not be a problem. you may have to change a setting in the bios to set the sata primary and the ide secondary
have an sata drive coexist with an ide/ata drive should not be a problem. you may have to change a setting in the bios to set the sata primary and theoide secondary
which is another thing I love about SATA, no need to set master/slave and/or play w/jumpers and stuff
Look at newegg for the Xion cases. They are very well built, and the power supply seems really solid (I taxed evey component at once in my system, and the voltage on the rails seemed really solid). Plus, it's a case + power supply for like 45 after rebate
If you have a digicam or something that uses flash memory, might as well get a memory card reader as well to go under the floppy drive. So much easier than finding an external reader and plugging it in (just looks messy and cluttered).