Will an ata harddrive work on a sata mobo?

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#1 chimo111
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Will an ata harddrive work on a sata mobo? I bought a sata mobo and i accidently bought a ata harddrive will it work?
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#2 geogo3r
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What mobo do you have?
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#3 zackattack784
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yes it will work, but you will have to hook the hdd up with a big ide cable instead of a small sata cable
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#4 geogo3r
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I made a similar mistake, I bought an IDE (I think, may be ATA) but instead I should of bought a SATA300 >.>
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#5 zackattack784
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an ide hdd is slower than a sata hdd though. i have noticed a difference in speed between the two. can't you just return the ide drive and buy a sata one?
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#6 geogo3r
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Yeah thats what im going to do, I made that mistake of buying the IDE but at least I have 14 days to return it, ill get a 3.0Gbps (SATA300) HDD because like you said, its faster. :)
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#7 zackattack784
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Yeah thats what im going to do, I made that mistake of buying the IDE but at least I have 14 days to return it, ill get a 3.0Gbps (SATA300) HDD because like you said, its faster. :)geogo3r
good call. i noticed oblivion loaded a lot quicker on my sata drive than it did on my ide drive.