Can I use SATA and IDE at the same time?

Yes absolutely you can use both. Hell, you could run SCSI, SATA, PATA (old IDE), USB 2.0 and firewire drives all at once (with a decent power supply).

Can you have two SATA drives?

Contrary to some of the other answers,m you are not limited to the controller ports on your motherboard. You can add one or more of these into your expansion slots for eight extra SATA ports. Basically, most motherboards can handle ONLY 4 SATA drives, which is often 2 DVD drives and 2 hard drives.

Why do motherboards have two IDE connectors?

These are used to connect your hard drives and/or optical drives to the motherboard. They are the reason the newer motherboards have only one 40-pin IDE connector. The SATA interface has replaced the IDE interface as the preferred hard drive interface. The two long blue connectors are the memory slots.

Can you connect multiple SATA cables together?

Yes, you can connect multiple devices on one SATA power cable.

Which two components could be connected together by an IDE cable?

IDE, an acronym for Integrated Drive Electronics, is a standard type of connection for storage devices in a computer. Generally, IDE refers to the types of cables and ports used to connect some hard drives and optical drives to each other and to the motherboard.

What is secondary IDE?

Allows you to connect a CD-ROM, zip drive, tape drive or other IDE device to the system. The location of the secondary and Primary IDE controllers are usually on the center edge of the motherboard towards the front of the computer. …

Is IDE and ATA the same?

While IDE and ATA are very closely related, they are not the same thing. IDE has been reverse-acronymed as PATA since the interface was a parallel connection using the ATA standard. SATA is a Serial ATA connection.

What is IDE PC?

An integrated development environment (IDE) is software for building applications that combines common developer tools into a single graphical user interface (GUI).