Seagate dont make....

[Mandingo]

I was looking for a seagate hard dive that is ATA 133 and I cant seem too find one. Its seems all they make is ATA 100 or 150. Why is that? So is it just as good to run a seagate ATA 100 on a mobo that supports ATA 133 as using a different brand hard drive that is ATA 133?

 

[diabloII]

ATA is old, why do you want to use it?

SATA is same price and is better

 

[Mandingo]

Can SATA be used on any mobo? What does the mobo have to support?

 

[HAVOC]

New MOBO's now come with SATA controllers built into the board. No less then 2 and up to 8.

Older MOBO's won't have them, but for $60-$100 you can purchase a SATA adapter card for PCI. Then install the drivers and use SATA HDD's.

Which will IMO phase-out IDE HDD's with-in the next 5 years or so.

 

[Apokalipse]

most average hard drives don't transfer more than about 60MB/s
ATA100 = 100MB/s max, but hard drives aren't using that, let alone ATA133 or even half the SATA bandwith.
the main advantages of SATA are headroom, and the small cables

 

[Shumway]

I think maxtor is the only one's that actually make ATA-133,All the other's i see are only ATA-100

 

[Apokalipse]

it's not worth getting ATA133. If I got SATA, it would be for the smaller cables, and so that I can use the IDE cables for something else, like DVD burners

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

No IDE hard drives are even limited by ATA-66, so it's pointless to want an ATA-133

Most good Hard Drives are only ATA-100 (For the ATA ones, not including SCSI or SATA)

 

[MrBebop26]

I went SATA just for the cables, a lot better then having so many huge ribons all over.

-Ryan