ATA33 vs ATA66, ATA100

[engrbill47]

I recently discovered, to my chagrin, that a new HD that I had purchased for my MSI K7 Turbo LE was ATA33 went it comes up on the post screen. About what time frame did UDMA 66 come on the market? I bought the new HD as a bare bones unit and only found out it's slower transfer rate a few days ago. My MB is capable of UDMA 66 & 100. IS the higher rate any benefit?

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by engrbill47 on 01/11/02 10:17 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[FatBurger]

How do you know it's ATA33? If it's a new hard drive, it should be ATA100 (or even ATA133). Moving from ATA33 to ATA66/100 will make a difference, but ATA66 to ATA100 won't matter much at all.

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[Arrow]

ATA66 came into the market quite a long time ago... we're now up to ATA133.

Unless you got it second-hands or it was a "bargain" type deal, I doubt it'd be ATA33.

Rob
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[FatBurger]

we're not up to ATA133.

We're not? You mean the ATA133 Maxtor drives and various controllers are a sham?

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[ejsmith2]

"And no, the bus rating doesn't make a significant difference for your hard drive."

It makes a little. Figure on 35,000k/s, it'll creep up to 35,500k/s.

 

[FatBurger]

Between ATA33 and ATA66/100 it does. I was assuming he had ATA66/100. I'll edit my post, since that was very unclear.

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[Arrow]

OOPS! BIG TYPO!

Instead of "ATA66 came into the market quite a long time ago... we're not up to ATA133", it should read:

"ATA66 came into the market quite a long time ago... we're NOW up to ATA133."

The former sentence doesn't make sense anyway.

Rob
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[FatBurger]

That's what I figured you meant to write.

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