133 HD that much better than 100?

[Nails9inmyhead]

I just got a mobo that does a 100 hard drive, not 133. itll run a HT intel with 400 drr mem. seems if it really mattered id get a 133 HD too? can anyone tell me there is a real differance (other than one nanomillemeter on a benchtest)? arent this things going "serial' (?, newbie,no idea, i just know i can do it to my setup in the futurel, wires are there) anyway?

[Izdaari]

That's pretty incoherent and I had trouble making sense of it except that you want to know if an ATA-133 hard drive is significantly better than ATA-100 hard drive.

Nope, not especially, and the Western Digital SE drives, which use the ATA-100 interface, are still one of the fastest IDE drives out there. Sure, choose ATA-133 over ATA-100 if all other things are equal, but otherwise it's no biggy.

Serial ATA (SATA) matters but right now that's more because the cable is small and round, making for purty wiring jobs than because of any performance advantage. Even so, the fastest IDE drives you can buy are the 10k rpm SATA-150 WD Raptor series.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

No real difference between the two in terms of speed

--Jakk:t

[Nails9inmyhead]

I wrote that very early in the morning. I couldn't sleep. Thank you for your help!

[SLX]

133 better? yea in a small way. you have to remember that cache memory of the HD can run much faster than the disk.

I agree with the opinions above. choose 133 over 100 if the every thing is the same. ie 8mb cache over 2 mb 15k over 7.5k

[Nails9inmyhead]

could some mod delete this. it was addressed under Data Storage. Next time I'll look harder before i post.

now i found out HOW I can delete it, but its been viewed enough, ill keep it. thanks for the help guys.

[Terminator]

Have Maxtor ATA133's and difference from ATA100 is miniscule. Have SATA on new board so will wait til there are more SATA drives on the market then think about upping to SATA drive..probably RAID 0 them.

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[Midknyte]

there is no difference, since there are no hard drives that can even come close to doing 100, much less 133.