Greetings all. I'm building a new computer soon, hopefully, and I'm wondering if a PCI IDE Controller card is worth it. The system I'm using now has a Promise Utlra 100TX2 card in it, which supports ...

Two new SATA drives would be nice I am sure, if you got WD Raptors or something fast like that. Personally, though, I would just use the older PATA card that you already have for the time being, ...

(1) The controlling electronics built into an IDE drive. See IDE. (2) The adapter on the plug-in card or motherboard that connects to the IDE controller. This is technically the IDE host adapter, but ...