Adding old harddrive to Mac Pro

I've just got the Quad Core Mac Pro 2.8Ghz.
Can I put my old Sata 160 gig hard drives inside it?
Thanks
Mike

Yes. No cables are needed.
Just remove the side door and remove any of the drive sleds, screw your 3+1/2 in drive to it (connector-side up), and slide it gently back into position.
If those are 2+1/2 in drives, you will have to make/buy an adapter to center the drive connector on the backplane connector.
PS: As The Hatter points out, you do NOT want to use the Applications on those drives. You are much better off re-installing your Applications rather than copying problems from your old (possibly incompatible) system.
Message was edited by: Grant Bennet-Alder

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