[Main General Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos No performance difference between ATA100 & ATA133 Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by AdamB [Email] (#3) [Profile/Gallery] (more from AdamB) on Sun, 6 Jul 2003 03:15:39 In Reply to: OT: Need to get a 2nd Hard Drive for Computer, TG, Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:03:08 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

As even the fastest IDE harddrives perform around 50-60 MB/s, the limitation of ATA100 (100 MB/s) isn't met. Only bursts from the cache on the HD can exceed that limit, and that's only 2MB on most drives (and 8MB on the performance drives).

So there is no difference in performance between ATA100 and ATA133. It's purely a marketing standard, only supported by Maxtor. If you have ATA100 on your motherboard, that's fine. Also, when desktop drives hit the 100 MB/s mark, SATA will be the standard of choice, not ATA133.

Bottom line: Get a 7200 RPM drive with 8MB cache. Unless you download huge amounts of stuff, you won't need the 200 GB. Get a ~120 GB with 8MB cache.

As for which brand, Maxtor is definitely not more reliable than Western Digital. Judging from numerous hardware discussion boards, the most reliable HD's are Seagate and WD. IBM has slipped from being the best, to the worst, and Maxtor is mediocre.

HD performance is actually quite overlooked by computer buyers, but it's the weakest link in the chain, and it's the HD you're always waiting on. So a faster HD is something you really notice, whereas going from a 2.4 Ghz P4 to a 3+ Ghz P4 isn't noticeable, unless you do a lot of rendering etc. (in which case you should ditch the P4 and get an Athlon instead, since the P4 has an extremely weak FPU ;)

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• OT: Need to get a 2nd Hard Drive for Computer, TG, Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:03:08
  • Whichever has 8mb cache (-), Vlad, Sun, 6 Jul 2003 05:53:39
  • No performance difference between ATA100 & ATA133, AdamB , Sun, 6 Jul 2003 03:15:39 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Re: OT: Need to get a 2nd Hard Drive for Computer, chrisx, Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:23:41
    • Re: OT: Need to get a 2nd Hard Drive for Computer, TG, Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:53:44
      • That not quite what he was talking about (+), Vlad, Sun, 6 Jul 2003 05:58:45
        • Software RAIDS are a bad idea .... n/m, Trev, Sun, 6 Jul 2003 08:58:11
          • Definitely!, AdamB , Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:38:43
            • Why? (+), Vlad, Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:18:37
              • It sucks up loads of CPU power...n/m, AdamB , Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:40:06
  • Re: OT: Need to get a 2nd Hard Drive for Computer, Dave Westlake, Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:53:51
    • same experience here, Jason 0W-40, Sun, 6 Jul 2003 12:27:05
      • PS: Reliability statistics also show differently, AdamB , Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:17:58
        • Just stating personal experience....., Dave Westlake, Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:01:59
        • Thanks for the info and link, Jason 0W-40, Sun, 6 Jul 2003 21:29:24
      • Well all the people I know, AdamB , Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:36:20
  • Probably the 100GB...., Roger, Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:17:10
    • Re: Probably the 100GB...., TG, Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:24:29

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