If you have an IDE drive, whether it’s a hard drive or CD/DVD drive, and your motherboard has a SATA connection, you can still connect an IDE drive.

You may need an adapter to convert the 4-pin Molex power connection on the IDE drive if the computer power supply doesn’t have an available 4-pin Molex power connector.

  • Advantages of SATA over PATA.
  • See our IDE and SATA pages for related links and information.
  • Computer disk drive interface help and support.