Help need a HDD

[Slowdog2]

HDD is needed for a old pc. Motherboard is a ASUS CUSL2
The manual says " Ultra performance: Onboard IDE Bus Master controller with two connectors that support four IDE decices in two channels. Supports Ultra DMA/100, Ultra DMA/66, Ultra DMA/33 (IDE DMA Mode 2), PIO Modes 3 & 4 and supports Enhanced IDE devices, such as DVD-Rom, CD-Rom ...BLA BLA "

On the cover of the manual it says where it lists some of the features of the Motherboards "Dual channel UltraDMA/100 BM IDE"

On the front of the orignal Mother board box it says " ATA 100 Support"

the one I took out is a IBM Deskstar Model: DTLA-307030 ATA/IDE
Capacity 30.7GB
P/N 07N3929
RPM 7200rpm

Is a something like the stuff I see at NewEgg like the Ultra ATA 100 is that compatible??
thanks
Slo

 

[utaka95]

Any decent ide drive should work. I like the 80gig Western Digital w/ the 8 mb buffer, It's fast, quiet and cheap($56 at newegg, shipped). I've installed 3 of these in different 3-5 yr old pc's and it worked great everytime.

 

[Slowdog2]

Thanks !!!!
that Ultra DMA Ultra ATA La La La was startin to make my head swim 8O
altho 80gig is really huge for what this is used for (p3 800) some really whimpy games ....Hoyl casino a pinball game, your basic windows card games and what ever else is there Quake2,BF 1942, chicken shooter or turkey shooter foo foo games :roll:
but hey Mom likes them the quake and bf stuff is for the kid when he is at grandma's
but it works good for a near acient(sp)...hum? ...its old!!