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August 18th, 2004 02:00
IDE vs Serial ATA....help a noob...
Hello all. My Dimension 4400 used IDE hard drives. So when I got my new 8400 I thought I could use them. Nope. It has a serial ATA drive. Being new to this stuff, I have no idea what the difference is. I do know there is no IDE connector on the 8400 motherboard that I can see. Does ATA have any specific advantages over IDE? It's not like I have much of a choice in the matter, just kinda frustrated in all the money I dropped on large drives for my older system. Thanks for input!
-Jim
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August 18th, 2004 14:00
coldspyder_13,
Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
Check the information at the following site as it does show that the system that you have does have 1 IDE controller connection that can support 2 drives.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim8400/SM/techov.htm#wp1052739