IDE 80pin cables

[Guest]

Is it worth using an IDE 80pin cables on the hard disk?

 

[OldBear]

In order to use UDMA you have to.

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[OldBear]

By the way, there is a good speed increase in doing so.

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[Arrow]

If your HDD is ATA66 or faster, then use an 80pin cable.

Rob
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[OldBear]

But the same idea of the extra grounds holds true for slower
drives for good data transfer.

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[Lars_Coleman]

The whole idea behind the 80wire Ultra cable is to shield data. When the data is transferred faster on the bus it's more prone to bus noise to cause data corruption. Without the use of one your going to be calling the hard drive manufacture because of "bad sectors", when they aren't really true bad sectors.

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