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My trusty IDE drives, salvage?

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My new rig runs SATA HDD's in RAID0 for OS and a 1TB SATA for storage. Now my old IDE HDD has a load of music/movies/files that I'd ideally like to keep. So I am wondering if I could simply slap it in my rig and if everything would run fine?

Cheers.
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Yep, you can use it just fine.
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corky dorkelson
Yes, you should be able to add the HD, and then transfer all of your data onto your new storage drive. After that you could keep it in there, but I personally would make it into an external drive by getting something like this.
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videoman5
Yup, I have a 60GB IDE with some old files on it. Perfectly safe.
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Originally Posted by corky dorkelson View Post
Yes, you should be able to add the HD, and then transfer all of your data onto your new storage drive. After that you could keep it in there, but I personally would make it into an external drive by getting something like this.

Cheers guys! So I can actually turn my IDE into an external USB HDD?
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Yeah this is what I need to do....I need to find one of those enclosures for my IDE drives...I have 2 now that need to be used somehow lol.
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