Can you mix SATA and IDE drives?

My motherboard have both IDE and SATA controllers on it. I have a 120 gb firm drive hooked up now, but want to switch to a SATA drive. Can I hand down both hooked up? Or would I be better off getting an external storage area and putting my IDE drive in that?

Answer:
As far I as know, Yes.

Be sure to check your unique BIOS for possibly any settings to change to contract both SATA and IDE at once.

But some machines may need the primary boot-up drive to be SATA contained by mixed situations- such as some Dells.

Then you'd have to do transferring of info onto the unusual SATA drive or image it and put it on the tentative drive.
But not if you chose to setup the SATA drive to be an external drive.
Yes, you can mix them.
Yes, you can run both at the same time.
I do it adjectives the time.
I have 3 CD/DVD drives and 4 rock-hard drives, so I use all the SATA inputs and 3/4 of the EIDE.
Yes, I own an NForce4 Motherboard with one SATA 3.0 GB/s drive and two IDE drives and own no problems.

Just make sure you identify your SATA drive as you boot drive if that's where on earth your OS is.
yeah

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