[mdlug] Well, shucks - motherboard/CPU advice needed

[Joseph C. Bender]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Michael Rudas
> 

>  Just so I'm clear: would that adapter allow me to hook up two drives to one
> SATA plug? I mean, technically I have four drives, two HDs and two DVD drives.
> The one onboard IDE header will support two of those drives.
> 
	Not generally.  Usually it's one converter, one drive.

	My thought is that if you're really wanting to keep those two disks 
around, put the SATA-IDE converters on the hard disks and run the DVD 
drives master/slave on the IDE channel.

	But if you can cough up an extra $120 or so, just get a pair of 160GB 
SATA drives and be done with it.  If you're not getting a motherboard 
these days that doesn't have at least 4 SATA ports on it, you're wasting 
your money.