Transferring a SATA HDD

I am long overdue to get my HD with the times. I've been leaning toward setting up a single SATA (seagate 160 gb ?).  Will I be able to, down the road, transfer the SATA HDD to a new computer without losing all the accumulated data if I use the Serial 1 port as my connection now?  Somewhere I read that if you want to be assured of being able to access your SATA HDD on a fututre PC then a SATA PCI card is the only way to go.  I'd rather not spend the money on the card if it's not needed now and is useless in the future. Any thoughts?

Hi,
mrmom: The world of computing today is so fast moving that you are asking hypothetical questions!   As far as I know the near future seems to be SATA orientated - but as for a couple of years time - Who knows?
As for your second question - yes you will have to re-install Windows XP (usually) if you buy a new mobo - that's if we're still using XP then!  
I certainly wouldn't buy the SATA PCI card yet as it's impossible to pr-empt what the future holds, maybe when you hear something concrete as to the future of SATA then you can start making plans.
Axel  

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