I was told to get his type of hard drive for my PC. I went to search for it and I am confused... I find IDE ultra ATA100, IDE ultra ATA133, etc. What's the difference? I do not want to purchase the wrong one... Please help...
2007-01-01 18:14:34 · 4 answers · asked by sweet_p_51681 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I would recommend finding out what the manufacturer and model your motherboard is.
After finding this out, I would go to the manufacturers site and download the manual for the motherboard.
Once downloaded, I would read the specifications for your motherboard to find out what the support for IDE drives are.
It will saysomething like ATA33/ATA66/ATA100/ATA133. These are the speeds in MBs per second for the transfer rate for Parallel ATA or PATA which are used in older types of IDE Hard Drives.
Serial ATA (SATA) uses ATA150 or 150MBps transfer rate.
Once you have the ATA rating for your motherboard, then you can confidently purchase the correct type of Hard Drive.
Most new motherboards have support for both PATA and SATA, although more are moving towards SATA support.
2007-01-01 18:48:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could remove the existing drive, and compare the specs to new ones, that way there is no mistake of what to purchase, only to chose the size of the drive.
I'm not sure if you can mix a ATA100 and ATA133, but the computer store will know for sure.
Under Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, Disk Drives you should see the hard drive make and model, then search the web for the detailed specs on the ATA rating. Then you can find another drive of the same.
2007-01-01 18:57:30 · answer #2 · answered by Sam M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can put in ATA 100 on a pc that supports any IDE device just a rule of thumb you will run into trouble if the pc is very old due to BIOS limitations. like computers made in 1998 1999 will have a 30gb barrier... But anything new it will work. the main thing you want to look for is the RPM's and the Cache it has on it. Like the 7200.7 ATA100 8mb cache will perform better than a 5400RPM drive with 2mb cache ATA133. You will never see a diffrence in a ATA100 compared to the ATA133 if you using a slow IDE drives... but Get something that Runs 7200 RPM 8mb cache or 16mb cache ATA100 regardless of ATA 133 speed. but never go lower than ATA100 and 7200RPM and 8mb cache for the drive. I recommend Seagate brands.
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