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I going to get the Maxtor 300GB Ultra16 PATA Internal Hard Drive and a DVD burner but I'm not sure about these PATA/SATA/IDE things. Is there a way to know if that will work on my motherboard? I know how to install it and work it but I have no clue what kind of interface I have.
Right now, I got these in my computer...
CD/RW burner
DVD Rom Drive
148GB HDD
Thanks.
What motherboard do you have?
I highly recommend Seagate over Maxtor.
I don't know the exact model but it is an intel pentium 4
Edit: Okay, I found out. D865GBF
Your board will support both SATA and PATA, so you can go with whatever strikes your fancy.
Yup.
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d865gbf/Quote:
Peripheral Interfaces
Eight USB ports
One serial port
One parallel port
Two Serial ATA IDE interfaces
Two parallel ATA IDE interfaces with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
One diskette drive interface
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports