Okay.. I have a computer that was purchased about 6 or so years ago. It's a dell dimension 8200 that uses a RDRAM.. that fat looking memory chip that cost so much money. Anyway, I want to install a SATA drive into this computer that has mostly IDE slots. Is this doable? I have no clue about SATA hard drives and if it will be compatable with my computer. Please save me the trouble of buying some new hardware that I can't install. Thank you in advance... Tony

Kind of a hard thing to answer really. In fact your computer is really OK. Most rambus ram starts at something like 600mhz and goes up to 1ghz. As fast or faster than the newest ram. In my wife's old 8200 with RDRAM800 on photoshop the only way I could beat it was with a gob or dual data rate. It was the amount not the speed that finally beat it. Now to get back to your SATA deal. My guess would be that you could easily add a PCI adapter card to install a SATA or two. You will be limited to the very outdated bios Dell offers. It most likely will not boot to sata as would a raid drive allow maybe. I can say you would have to limit drive partitions most likely. I'd suggest that you keep a fresh install of xp on it with the updates and limit the un-needed programs. Then use a USB or NAS or ftp storage to keep the system working. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

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