Re: ATA100 vs ATA133

SATA-II controllers & drives are now available. So if you want to
go with SATA I'd go ahead and buy SATA-II standard hardware.
Our local Tiger Direct Outlet store has a controller for ~$50 and
a Seagate 160 Gigabyte SATA-II drive for ~$50. A pretty good
upgrade for a hundred dollars.

"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you were going to go that far to get a new controller, you might as
well get a SATA controller for a little bit extra and get a SATA hard
drive, right? (A SATA controller that also supports IDE.) There are some
out there.
"kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Travis King wrote:

Yes, they are both compatible, but here's the deal. If your
motherboard doesn't support ATA133, the hard drive will only run at
ATA100 instead of ATA133.

Ding, ding, ding, ding!

We have a winner! Though you should have probably narrowed it down to
the IDE controller.

A PCI ATA133 IDE controller can be had for around $25.

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