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Hard Drive Help
Hi all, I have an ASUS mobo that can take an UltraATA 133 HDD but I have
questions about it. Ive seen on ebay ATA133 drives and ATA100 drives what is the difference from these two from UltraATA133 and if available UltraATA100? Also is a "White Label" - Platinum HDD a good brand and reliable? its a 160Gb Thanks Shaun B. |
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Hard Drive Help
"GabrielSab" wrote in message ... Hi all, I have an ASUS mobo that can take an UltraATA 133 HDD but I have questions about it. Ive seen on ebay ATA133 drives and ATA100 drives what is the difference from these two from UltraATA133 and if available UltraATA100? Also is a "White Label" - Platinum HDD a good brand and reliable? its a 160Gb Thanks Shaun B. ATA133 and ATA100 are identical. Last I checked, there was no official ATA133 spec., this was just a supposed improvement that some disk (and mainboard) manufacturers implemented. HOWEVER, there isn't a disk drive ever made that can read/write information fast enough for ATA66 to be a bottleneck. So if there was a difference between ATA100 and ATA133, the difference to YOU, would be absolutely nothing. In other words, the drive technology itself hasn't caught up to the ATA100 interface yet. White label means that the drive is generic. It could be a good brand, and it could be crap. If you regularly back up your data files from your hard drive, a white label hard drive should work fine. But as hardly anybody ever does that . . . (I wouldn't chance it) Last I checked, Samsung made some really reliable hard drives, fairly heap. -Dave |
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