IDE in 2018?

[xn--cr8h]

Hi,

 

I'm thinking of building a PC and realized I have a couple old IDE hard drives from 2001ish sitting in my basement. One is 64GB and one is 256GB. Would it be practical to put these hard drives in my system and use them as extra storage (alongside an SSD for boot/most programs and data)? I mean, who doesn't like free storage, right?

 

Are modern motherboards incompatible with IDE? (The system would most likely use an A320 or B350 motherboard.) If so, could I get some sort of PCIe card with IDE connectors?

 

Would this be practical at all? I remember trying to work with IDE a long time ago and it was a huge pain - changing the boot drive required rearranging the actual hard drives in the PC (though that probably won't be necessary lol). Could I create a RAID 0 array with these drives and another SATA hard drive I have lying around, or would that be a stupid idea? (Maybe a JBOD-type solution would be better?)

[Enderman]

No.

[Techlas]

so there are sata to ide converters so it is possible and they are cheap

so why not but dont forget that this will not be the safes solution  

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

You could probably get an at least 500gb used sata drive for the money you use to buy a decent converter.

[manikyath]

you'd be better off getting a usb 2.0 drive than relying on an old IDE drive.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

24 minutes ago, xn--cr8h said:

Hi,

 

I'm thinking of building a PC and realized I have a couple old IDE hard drives from 2001ish sitting in my basement. One is 64GB and one is 256GB. Would it be practical to put these hard drives in my system and use them as extra storage (alongside an SSD for boot/most programs and data)? I mean, who doesn't like free storage, right?

 

Are modern motherboards incompatible with IDE? (The system would most likely use an A320 or B350 motherboard.) If so, could I get some sort of PCIe card with IDE connectors?

 

Would this be practical at all? I remember trying to work with IDE a long time ago and it was a huge pain - changing the boot drive required rearranging the actual hard drives in the PC (though that probably won't be necessary lol). Could I create a RAID 0 array with these drives and another SATA hard drive I have lying around, or would that be a stupid idea? (Maybe a JBOD-type solution would be better?)

You'll be hard pressed to find any modern boards that support IDE. You might be able to find PCI (not even PCI-e) cards that have IDE expansion, but the speeds are so slow you'll end up slowing down your entire system even if it's just for mass file storage rather than applications. Keep those drives for an old school computer build instead. A 500GB HDD isn't that expensive, worth much more than a janky PCI IDE expansion card. 

[xn--cr8h]

Thanks for the quick replies! This doesn't seem like a practical or cost-effective solution, so I don't think I'll be going with this.