sata vs ide

[Booldawg]

I need to buy a new hard drive and am comtemplating going the SATA route as my m/board supports it and was supplied with a SATA ribbon cable.

I understand SATA drives have different power connectors, do you get supplied an adaptor as my PSU only has the standard power leads you use for IDE drives/CD roms etc.

[OBonio]

I doubt you will be supplied an adapter. All the HDDs I've bought don't even come with screws!

http://www.directron.com/idesatapower.html

[dodgyshirt]

The power lead should have been supplied with the motherboard but if not you can get one very cheap on Ebay.

One word of warning though if you intend fitting a SATA drive, XP only has native drivers for Nvidia and Intel based motherboards. Via based boards will need SATA drivers loading during the setting up of XP this can sometimes be a hit and miss affair with Windows refusing to recognise the drive.