i'm having a new machine arrive tomorrow. my current machine uses 2 IDE drives. the new machine uses a SATA II drive. i'm under the impression that the connections for Serial ATA and IDE are different. i'm afraid i might have a hard time hooking up my old IDE drive to this new machine to transfer data.

is it even possible to take a USB cable and connect one computer to the other and transfer data? sounds almost too easy to be true, but i can connect a USB cable to any other thing (iPod, cell phone, Palm Pilot etc.) and it transfers.

any advice?