Hard-Drive Question...

[voogru]

Whats ATA/33/66/100
Whats UDMA/33/66/100

will a ATA/100 Hdd work on a UDMA/33/66/100 Mobo?

IBM DTLA307030 30.0 7200 RPM ATA/100

This is from the KT7-RAID

[ Specifications ]

CPU
1. Supports AMD-K7 Athlon Socket A 200MHz FSB Processors
2. Supports AMD-K7 Duron Socket A 200MHz FSB Processors

Chipset
1. VIA (KT133) /VIA 686A
2. Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
3. Supports AGP 2X/4X (Sideband)
4. Supports 100/133MHz Memory Bus Settings


Ultra DMA 100
1. High Point HTP370 IDE Controller
2. Ultra DMA 100MB/Sec data transfer rate
3. RAID 0(stripping mode for boosting performance)
4. RAID 1 (mirroring mode for data security)
5. RAID 0 +1(stripping and mirroring)

Memory
1. Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support PC100/PC133 SDRAM module
2. Supports up to 1.5 GB MAX. (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512MB SDRAM)
3. Supports VCM module


System BIOS
1. SOFTMENUTM III Technology to set CPU parameters
2. Award Plug and Play BIOS
3. Write-Protect Anti-Virus function by AWARD BIOS
4. Year 2000 Compliant

Multi I/O Functions
1. Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33/66/100(up to 4 HDD devices)
2. Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33
3. PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connectors
4. 1x Floppy Port (up to 2.88MB)
5. 1x Parallel Port (EPP/ECP)
6. 2x Serial Ports
7. 2x USB Connectors
8. On board USB header for Two extra USB channels

Miscellaneous
1. ATX form factor
2. 1 AGP slot, 6 PCI slots and 1 ISA slots
3. Hardware monitoring - Including Fan speed, Voltages, System environment temperature
4. Built-in Wake on LAN/Wake on Modem
5. Built-in IrDA TX/RX header

[Richard_Cranium72]

as the very confused public defender shuffled through his notes, he asked the judge,

"Can you repeat the Question ? "

The 33/66/100 are the PEAK transfer rates of HD's.
33=33mb/sec etc.

Popular theory is that most all faster HD's will be backwards compatible with older mobo's.

They just won't perform at the maximum transfer rate which probably won't matter cause the older mobo will have a bottleneck somewhere else.

The RAID mobo specs "" supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33/66/100(up to 4 HDD devices)""

Will allow multiple HD's to access and write info at the same time, minimizing the risk of loss of data while giving the capability of a SERIOUS increse of transfer rate.

RAID is much quicker than a SCSI hd.
Short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers.

There are number of different RAID levels. The three most common are 0, 3, and 5:

Level 0: Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disks) but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault tolerance.

Level 1: Provides disk mirroring.

Level 3: Same as Level 0, but also reserves one dedicated disk for error correction data. It provides good performance and some level of fault tolerance.

Level 5: Provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance


link to several mfg pages->> http://www.computerhope.com/hdspecs.htm

webopedia->> http://webopedia.internet.com/

glossary of computer terms->> http://homepages.enterprise.net/jenko/Glossary/G.htm

DrVette

[voogru]

Thanks..

The reason why Im getting a raid mobo cuz of the ATA-100 controlers That I found that were on the Pics at www.abit-usa.com (http://www.abit-usa.com)
so the pic answerd my queston sort of i just want to know if that hdd will work with the mobo that I have specified(KT7-RAID).

thanks

-voogru