I got a ECS 915G-A motherboard which has only 1 IDE slot. In the past I had motherboards with 4 IDE slots (for RAID, etc.). I guess these new motherboards are phasing out IDE slots and replacing them with SATA slots. I have a IDE HD & 2 IDE DVD drives. As you can see, I can only use 1 HD & 1 DVD drive. I do not want to buy a new HD. Is there any way to get another IDE device? Do I have to buy one of those IDE expansion boards?

Why not sell one your old IDE drives and get newer, faster SATA drive? Technology is always changing and evolving so good to upgrade small pieces at a time. SATA drives are quite reasonable priced!

The other option is to get an external USB/firewire drive like I did...250GB for data backups plus I have my regular 120GB ATA7200 Western Digital drive hooked up as master on IDE controller.

Otherwise, just get an hard drive enclosure for the extra IDE drive and hook up to one of you free uSb ports.

Are you looking for a raid setup? If so It could cost you a lil bit. If not it shouldn't be too bad, I did a little research for you. Your gonna need to take up a PCI slot if you go with this way.

Raid: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816115021

Regular: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816102007