Can I connect an old VelociRaptor to an Asrock FM2a75m Pro4+?

[maxland]

I bought the mobo to upgrade my wife's system. I have a number of old IDE drives but can't find where to connect them on the mobo. Do I need to buy a new SATA drive? Ideally, I'd like to transfer her old drive to the VelociRaptor just because it's lying in a drawer doing nothing. At worst, just hook up the old drive to the new system.

Can any of this be done?

 

[spooky2th]

You can get an ide/pata to sata adapter and use the old drives. Something like this maybe?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232004

 

[noidea_77]

This board has modern SATA3 ports for the hard drives and the Raptor is an old IDE drive. An IDE-to-SATA-adapter may work, but I highly recommend to buy a new and much fast drive. Maybe even a SSD for faster boot.

 

[spooky2th]

You can use the old drives for extra storage. A sata3 drives do not come close to sata2 speeds. HDD's are slow so using those old drives will not be so much of a bad thing. A SSD would be the way to go and use the old drives for storage.