Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Motherboards and EIDE...
Name: Bobby Date: July 14, 2003 at 08:21:38 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: p4 3.0
Comment:
I am looking at the Gigabyte GA-8KNXP motherboard to buy (or another one with 875 or better chipset), but I am unsure what kind of hard drive and cd-rom ports it has. Like if I have an Ultra ATA133 Harddrive, will that be compatible? I am confused with the IDE/ATA/EIDE/RAID etc... terminology. Are they the same? For example, one of the motherboards says this: IDE:2x Ultra ATA 100/66 and 1x EIDE 133/100/66 Port - what this mean?! Thanks for any help! I am totally confused...
Name: Tony Date: July 14, 2003 at 08:30:04 Pacific
Reply:
i beleive that is the speed that the ports for your hardrive reads. as in the 100 means it reads the drive at 100 mhz, 66 and so on, the 100 would be fastest and better, the ata is for your cd-rom and hard drive the eide i think is for your floppy, these are the ports you hook their ribbons or cables into, almost all hardives use the same stuff these days, i am sure it will be fine regardless of what u buy. now if u have a ata 133 hdd then it will only run at 100 if you have a board that is only ata 100,( i think, not absolutely sure) so it would be better to get ata 133 but if you get ata 100 it should still work, hope this helps,
The ata rate (66, 100, 133) is the burst data transfer rate to/from the hard drive; your actual transfer rate for reads and writes of any but the smallest blocks is going to be much lower. So, you are not giving up nearly as much as it might appear when you hook a ata 166 HD up to an ata 100 controller.
0
Response Number 3
Name: Bobby Date: July 14, 2003 at 09:54:24 Pacific
Reply:
Ok. But what is the difference between the EIDE and ATA and RAID and IDE? For the one spec it says: IDE: 2x Ultra ATA 100/66 and 1x EIDE 133/100/66 Port. I thought that if I have a ATA133 harddrive, then it plugs into the EIDE slot or something? Thanks
0
Response Number 4
Name: Dragonman Date: July 14, 2003 at 10:09:14 Pacific
Reply:
Like they were saying the ATA100 or ATA133 is the ransfer rate at 100mb/s and133mb/s respectively. The ATA and EIDE can be used interchangably. They both use IDE cables but you need a EIDE cable rated to run at 133 in order run higher then 66mb/s. If you have a ATA133 drive and put it on a ATA100 port you will only run at ATA100, although I can't notice a difference between 100 and 133. SATA or Serial ATA on the other hand runs at 150mb/s and uses a SATA data cable and a SATA power cable (you can buy power adapters for SATA drives so you can plug it in to your PSU). The cool thing about SATA drives is that you can run them in a RAID config (EIDE drives can run RAIS as well but you need a EIDE RAID controller) RAID uses more then one drive as a single drive for redundancy. For example you can configure two identical drives to act as one so if one drive fails the other will still be there and you can still operate. Depending on your RAID config , data will be mirrored on both drives. There is also supposed to be a performance advantage as well but I have not tested it for myself yet so I cannot say. Hope this helps.
Summary: KT133A motherboards do, but they're hard to find. Nforce2 motherboard and DDR would make your system run a whole lot better though! MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby! ...
Summary: i am upgrading my motherboard and graphics card.....the motherboard was given to me as a gift from the computer shop as one of those frequent purchase rewards....but it only supports 4x agp......its g...
0 
