Choose my hard drive please...

bradthegreat · Jun 15, 2006

I want to buy a large hard drive for storage. I am looking at this one here . It looks pretty good. I noticed that it is IDE Ultra ATA100 interface and my mobo here is just IDE. What does that mean? Can I order this HDD and be able to put it right in without an adapter or such? What is the difference betwixt IDE and Ultra IDE? thanks

bushwhacker · Jun 15, 2006

U asked for ATA100? Forget it, that will slow down your pleasure time. Take this sata.

Your motherboard supports SATA, so take it.

You posted the HDD you wanted is... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144392 <Slower.

I want you take this big mutha...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136003 <Sure it cost 14 dollars more, but the real itself is perfomance. You will love this hard drive.

ATA100 <Used in Pentium 2/3, Much slower and outdated technology.
UATA100/133 Much common used and uses better reading cache. Has plenty of bottlenecks <Lag and slowdown.
SATA was the best thing on today, because it has no bottleneck and can read much fast.

bradthegreat · Jun 15, 2006

i already have 2 sata HDDs or else I would. what good hdd can I get for IDE that's at least 300GBs? I wish I could go sata, but I can't!!

Illfated · Jun 15, 2006

>>It looks pretty good. I noticed that it is IDE Ultra ATA100 interface and my mobo here is just IDE. What does that mean? <<

Ultra ATA100 is just a type of IDE. It will fit.

Samstoned · Jun 15, 2006

no much differance between 100 and 133
seagate does not make 133 for a little more speed
try WD

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