Build Help

[ChetDesmond]

Well I'm halfway through my first build and have run into a snag. The hard drive that I bought is not a SATA like I somehow believed it to be, it is this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148025

And when hooking it up to my motherboard, which is this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030

I noticed that I couldn't hook it up to the SATA inputs (it not being a SATA and all) so I had to hook it up through the IDE connector. But since there is only one IDE connector on my motherboard, this means that I can't hook up a CDROM drive or anything else, right?

Most likely, I will just get a SATA hard drive and forget about it, but I'm wondering if there is a way I can hook the computer up with this configuration.

So if I got this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144415

I would be cool right?

Thanks in advance.

 

[b1gapl]

Well you can connect the CDROM and the IDE hard drive on the same IDE connector. You just need an IDE cable with three connections. But I heard it isn't recommended to put opticals and hard drives together on one IDE cable. But yea I'd go with that WD SATA hard drive you chose at the end.

 

[ChetDesmond]

What if I wanted to hook up another optical drive in the future, could that one IDE port handle that? And how would that work?