Older IDE Hard drive on newer Asus board

[manofmany]

I am getting ready to go pickup one of my old ribbon ide cables to connect it. As far as getting power to it from this new board, what do I need? Is this a current spare power hookup down there or do I need to bring something from my older PC?

 

[Tmagic650]

This old IDE drive might greatly slow down your new system

 

[manofmany]

This old IDE drive might greatly slow down your new system

There are standard power connections so I got that figured out

Which aspect of adding a secondary IDE hard drive (60gb western digital) slow my system down? I realize without looking at it that it wont be as fast as my 250gb 7200 seagate....

 

[Tmagic650]

Basically it might slow your boot up speed greatly... or maybe it won't. I just removed 2 old Western Digital 40GB IDE drives from a computer, and replaced them with a single new Seagate 320GB IDE drive. The boot up speed was greatly improved. Like from 5 minutes to 45 seconds

 

[rapzkilla]

Its true that it might slow it down but if you have enough RAM, that wont be a problem at all. I have 2 IDE HDD and my pc runs perfectly with 2GB DDR2 RAM memory. For the power connectors, you will need a compatible power supply like the Dynex® - 400-Watt ATX CPU Power Supply . It connects IDE and SATA . http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8311052&st=power+supply&type=product&id=1174091945952

 

[manofmany]

Its true that it might slow it down but if you have enough RAM, that wont be a problem at all. I have 2 IDE HDD and my pc runs perfectly with 2GB DDR2 RAM memory. For the power connectors, you will need a compatible power supply like the Dynex® - 400-Watt ATX CPU Power Supply . It connects IDE and SATA . http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8311052&st=power+supply&type=product&id=1174091945952

I have 3gb DDR2 installed.