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80-wire 40-pin IDE Cables
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: July 5, 2004 at 09:57:00 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro / SP1 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz / 512 M
Comment:
Is there any performance benefit in using 80-wire 40-pin IDE cables with CD or DVD burners instead of the standard 40-wire 40-pin IDE cables? Are there any benchmark statistics that you know of?
Name: PC Bob Date: July 5, 2004 at 10:03:14 Pacific
Reply:
No, and no.
These will only affect the drives that need them. In fact, they won;t work properly without it. But the ordinary IDE drives won't be affected. If you think you might upgrade to one in the near future, tho, go ahead and put them in.
HTH :)
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Response Number 2
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: July 5, 2004 at 11:00:19 Pacific
Summary: has anyone seena 44-40 pin ide cable so i can connect my desktop harddrive to laptop i just need the data cable i got a small power supply for the desktop hardrive maybe this one? http://www.cableso...
Summary: whenever i use an 80wire 40pin ide cable on my system i would either get my hard drive not detected or installing windows xp would get errors. when i change it to a regular 40wire 40 pin ide cable eve...
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll)
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Hard drive corrupts every...
