Another question about hooking up old harddrives

[kveld3]

Now that I have figured out what I can do about old harddrives with a new computer, I had another question. What would happen if I hooked up a Ultra ATA 133 hard drive to a motherboard that only had a ATA 100 connection? Would the only thing that would happen be a decrease in speed? All the mother boards that are now out only have the ATA 100 connections from what I see. Thank you in advance for any help.

 

[HDDFreak]

Ultra ATA 133 hard drive

How old is this hard drive. If it is newer, one would assume that it would have some kind of fall back method. If not, isn't there ata133 expansion cards out there?

 

[dokk]

Now that I have figured out what I can do about old harddrives with a new computer, I had another question. What would happen if I hooked up a Ultra ATA 133 hard drive to a motherboard that only had a ATA 100 connection? Would the only thing that would happen be a decrease in speed? All the mother boards that are now out only have the ATA 100 connections from what I see. Thank you in advance for any help.

ER,, AHHH,,,,ATA 100/133 etc refers to the transfer [data moving] speed of the HDD in question not the drive's [rotational speed]
Just do not put an ATA 66 in front of a ATA 100/133....
,Because the first HDD that the system sees/detects will determine the transfer speed for the system until changed,,again...

 

[doolittle]

yes a ATA133 drive will work correctly with an ATA100 controller at the ATA100 speed. The speed decrease will barely be noticed...