ShoobieRat
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Okay, most mobo's (at least newer ones) support both ATA, and SATA. For instance, the one MSI board I'm looking at now, has ATA support for 4 IDE devices, and a SATA connection for 2 master drives.
My question is: Is it possible (and has anyone had experience with this) to have 2 ATA HDDs and 2 SATA HDDs running on the same board?
Since I know next to nothing about SATA, I don't know how the system operates in concerns to the SATA interface. That's why I'm wondering if it is possible, and whether or not that will cause problems in the system. I know the ATA drives will be slower than the SATA drives, but since they are on seperate controllers, I don't know if there would be a bottleneck still, or if the system would run at all with both types of drives.
Please advise.
My question is: Is it possible (and has anyone had experience with this) to have 2 ATA HDDs and 2 SATA HDDs running on the same board?
Since I know next to nothing about SATA, I don't know how the system operates in concerns to the SATA interface. That's why I'm wondering if it is possible, and whether or not that will cause problems in the system. I know the ATA drives will be slower than the SATA drives, but since they are on seperate controllers, I don't know if there would be a bottleneck still, or if the system would run at all with both types of drives.
Please advise.