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Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: 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?

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Animal on February 22, 2002, 01:30:59 PM

yeah wont make any difference.

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Maniac 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)

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Sandman 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.

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Furious 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.

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Apache on February 22, 2002, 01:35:46 PM

Thanks alot guys. Didn't waste my money. :)

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Mighty1 on February 22, 2002, 01:36:34 PM

If it is a WD then the answer is yes it IS backward compatible.WD UBB (http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=eUAvtr8g&p_lva=&p_faqid=64&p_created=1003444541&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTE5OSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=)

Damn you guys are fast!:)

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Vulcan 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)

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Maniac on February 22, 2002, 02:11:19 PM

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Ohhhhh dear poor maniac  

Ok what is ATA? :)

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Eagler 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

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Maniac 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?

Title: Hard Drive question.
Post by: Eagler 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.