can you put a serial ATA into a computer that only has parallel ATA?

my computer only has parallel ATA and the highest HDD i can get is 500GB but with serial ATA i can get up to 2 TB. can you get serial ATA in the pc with only parallel ATA?

correct you can get external sata ports.. regretably there man pata is a OLD system.. its clunky and unreliable. PATA on anything recent should be outlawed :P

so yeah thats where your at atm.. there is good news however IDE is backward compatible with most of its old standards in the evnt you have an ide port and a ribbon cable for it.

PATA isn't unreliable, it's just slow.JigglyWiggly_

thanks. where can i get these adapters or cards?

thanks. where can i get these adapters or cards?

bigM10231

you could set up a fiber channel raid array, those things are dirt cheap nowadays, and as long as you have to buy a card anyways, it might be worth looking into...