New Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 19:59 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> If the new hard drive is a SATO II and your motherboard is 5 years 
>> old your up a creek without a paddle. I need to call Newegg tomorrow 
>> first thing and stop my order. I can't use the 500 GB I ordered.
>>     
>
> Alternatively, buy a SATA card, so you can add that drive, and other new
> drives, to an older system.  PATA is getting harder to buy, and if you
> don't want to replace your motherboard so you can keep on using it with
> newer devices, adding the feature to your board is the next option.
>
>   
    Yes a good point. I will find out how much a pci card costs. Back to 
newegg 8-)



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