ok, i'm finally getting my parts this week and have some questions and seeing if this idea of mine is possible heh ok first, are ide 2 sata adapters any good? also is running raid a good idea? now for my idea: from what i read from the board's features, it has 2 sata controllers and its 4 devices per a controller. now i recently bought 2 300gb ide drives (they were on sale) and i'm think of using raid with those using the ide 2 sata adapters and also add my 120 and 160gb hdds using the adapters on one controller. for the other controller: my hdd mobile rack that has a 20gb hdd, dvd burner, cd burner and a dvd-rom again all using the ide 2 sata adapters. i do have a smaller hdd (12gb) hanging around the pc but that one i'm gonna leave out. so do you think my idea is possible? incase you missed the info on the mobo i'm getting, heres the link to again: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec....atinum&class=mb