HP Media Center 873n, a520n, 523n, D530s and pavilions A200n switch to limitations of hard drive?

I have the following computers:

HP Media Center 873

Pavilion: a200n, a520n, a523n, D520s

I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade the drives on those computers using an IDE to SATA adapter or something?  If I use the SATA drive as primary or secondary readers?  The bios will read the readers SATA IDE/PATA is used? I'll be limited up to 500 GB IDE/PATA drives? or the sky is the limit for SATA drives?

Can I use a SATA USB hard drive for backups? and it is ' has a limit to the capacity?

Thank you

You can use the following adapter to convert a SATA to EIDE. Just read the comments and all your questions are answered.

http://www.CompUSA.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5337111&CATID=468

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