[roryscott2]

Greetings to everyone. My question could be a rather research intensive one. My current setup on my computer is:

THE STATS

Intel P4 2.4Ghz 400Mhz FSB
Aopen Motherboard ( I actually forgot the model number)
512MB RDRAM (I know stupid move right)
Radeon 9200 64MB AGP
Creative Labs Audigy Sound Card
80GB 7200RPM IDE Western Digital (No cache, nor any type of special edition)
Plextor 52x CD Burner
Sony DVD 16x Player
All in a big yellow box.

THE BACKGROUND

I am currently trying to upgrade, but my wallet, and so many emerging technology are holding me back. My DVD Player recently burned out, so I replaced it with the new HP 740i DVD Burner with Lightscribe. Now that I have the capability to keep all of my friends DVDs, I dont have a place to store them. with only 8GB left on my HD. The big problem with upgrades, is so much of my hardware is out of date, to change one thing, almost means building a new system.

THE QUESTION

I would like my new system to be all SATA, and I dont want to waste any money. My current system doesnt support SATA, so is there a hard drive I could buy that will work in my old system, and still be a nice fit for my new system? I would prefer it to be SATA, but if IDE doesnt run too slow in the new system, I guess I can go with that.

I am open to all responses, I would like to hear everyones opinion. Thanks for the help.


R.

[horndude]

get an SATA card and add a couple SATA drives

your system isnt very old or out of date, I do encoding,dvd burning, and all sorts of intensive time consuming tasks with way less--->800mhz duron/384mb RAM/120GB HD running linux

that system you have should be able to convert a 700mb avi into DVD in under 2 hours I would think, and it likely doesnt have any storage limits, the mobo probably doesnt have the 137GB limit for its IDE controller