I have a new Seagate 160GB HDD that's marked Ultra ATA/100. What does Ultra ATA/100 mean? Is Ultra ATA the same as IDE?
Are PATA and IDE storage devices the same? Do the have the same connectors for the mobo?
Can I connect this Ultra ATA/100 HDD to a mother board that supports only PATA 2 x ATA100 up to 4 Devices? I'm looking at the: ABIT AN8 SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
If I keep the Seagate HDD, I need a mother board that will support an Ultra ATA/100 HDD. What does the mother board specs need to say in this case?
Or should I just return the Ultra ATA/100 HDD (unopened) and buy a new SATA HDD?
I'm in the process of buying the necessary hardware and software to build my first computer and it doesn't have to be superfast.....I'm not a gamer. I do however want to use this new computer to convert family VHS and 8mm tapes to DVD with this computer.
2006-06-28
02:17:22
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