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Maxtor ATA/100 20Gig harddrive Q?
Name: Chris Trebesch Date: October 29, 2003 at 10:22:04 Pacific OS: WinXPPro CPU/Ram: P3/450-256Megs
Comment:
I have a Maxtor 20 Gig harddrive here, and its ATA 100. I have a Pentium 3 Motherboard with no ATA 100, nor do i have a 80Pin cable. Is it OK to still hook it up and use it, i already hooked it up and installed Windows XP Pro on it. I would really like to make sure before i do anymore ussage on the computer.
Name: ryan Date: October 29, 2003 at 10:39:19 Pacific
Reply:
it will work but just you will not get the highest performance out of your hd it will run at the highest ata speed that the mobo can support
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: October 29, 2003 at 11:12:56 Pacific
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I could be wrong, but without an 80-wire IDE cable, I think it will only run at ATA33...I don't think it will even run at ATA66 without it.
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Response Number 3
Name: Stuart Date: October 29, 2003 at 12:43:45 Pacific
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It will work fine, but without motherboard support and the 80 way cable it will only ever run at ATA 33
Stuart
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: October 29, 2003 at 15:06:10 Pacific
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You might want to check your MB specs on the IDE thruput. As was stated in respone #3 without 80 wire cable I think you'll only get ATA33. your MB may be capable of ATA66. Thos numbers only represent maximum burst speed anyway. Your drive still will probably perform well. RPM & average access times are about as important as ATA speed. Check to make sure you have DMA enabled. Device manager> harddrives> Maxtor> properties> settings> check DMA
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Response Number 5
Name: Chris Trebesch Date: October 29, 2003 at 18:06:53 Pacific
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To get the maxium perfomance out of my drive im better off buying a ATA 100/133 card it sounds like. How much does a card and cable run for though?
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