Author Topic: Hard Drive question. (Read 453 times)

Apache · « **on:** February 22, 2002, 01:23:26 PM »

If I have an ATA/133 hard drive and my MB supports ATA/100, is the hard drive backward compatible? WIll the hard drive work at all?

Animal · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2002, 01:30:59 PM »

yeah wont make any difference.

Maniac · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2002, 01:31:25 PM »

Never heard about ATA, but the thing you should look for if it is an IDE-drive or SCSI-drives...

Never heard of an IDE-drive not being compatible from one comp to another... (as long as both computers uses IDE-drives that is)

Sandman · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2002, 01:33:20 PM »

The drive will work, but it won't be at ATA-133 bus speed. It'll be at ATA-100.

You probably won't notice the difference even if you had a mainboard capable of supporting it.

Furious · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2002, 01:34:57 PM »

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Because of their downward compatibility Ultra-ATA/133 drives run without any problems with Ultra-ATA/100, ATA/66, and ATA/33 interfaces as well. The drives will adapt their interface speed automatically to the slower interfaces.

From:

http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/850/1.html

hope it helps.

F.

Apache · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2002, 01:35:46 PM »

Thanks alot guys. Didn't waste my money.

Mighty1 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2002, 01:36:34 PM »

If it is a WD then the answer is yes it IS backward compatible.WD UBB

Damn you guys are fast!:)

Vulcan · « **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2002, 02:03:12 PM »

Ohhhhh dear poor maniac

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Originally posted by Maniac
Never heard about ATA, but the thing you should look for if it is an IDE-drive or SCSI-drives...

Never heard of an IDE-drive not being compatible from one comp to another... (as long as both computers uses IDE-drives that is)

Maniac · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2002, 02:11:19 PM »

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Ohhhhh dear poor maniac

Ok what is ATA?

Eagler · « **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2002, 02:13:44 PM »

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Originally posted by Maniac

Ok what is ATA?

it's a standard:
AT Attachment (ATA) storage interface utilized as the disk drive interface on most personal and mobile computers today

and just because I like you

ATA ( Advanced Technology Attachment
http://www.techadvice.com/tech/A/ATA.htm

Maniac · « **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2002, 02:21:33 PM »

Ok thx

One more question tho

, was my original statement wrong? if the MB have an IDE-drive then any other IDE-drive should work on it right?

Eagler · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2002, 02:27:27 PM »

you wouldn't get the same performance (speed) depending on motherboard/hardrive specs

one of my most noticeable performace boost was when I went to a 7200 100ATA drive on a compatible mb - hard drive access time was noticeably reduced.