Can I gain an increase of speed in my hard disk if I'll change my hard disk cable from ATA100 to ATA 133?

Answer 1

Most likely this will not effect anything. The problem with hard drives isnt the cable that links them with the mother board, but the physical limitations involved with spinning the disks at insanely fast speeds. You probably have a 7200RPM drive. To put that into perspective, most car engines are considered "in the red" or "red-lining" if they rev past 7000RPM.

RPM=The number of times somthing will make a complete rotation in a minute. The disk inside your hard drive spins 7200 hundred times every minute.

Answer 2

yes, a minimal increase. around 33% (33MB/sec faster file read and write output). but if you were not so geeky like me, the speed increase is insignificant. in case your motherboard is ATA100 (an older version) and your hard drive is ATA133, you will still get the performance of the slowest interfaced used and that is 100MB/sec.

ATA100 and ATA133 are those hard drive interface that appears until the late 2002. the new serial ATA nowadays is faster that uses a more manageable round 7-wire cable rather than a flat-80 wire ribbon cable IDE (integrated drive electronics) used for ATA100 and ATA133drives.

Answer 3

Match the Hard drive to the cable for maximum performance.

An ATA 133 cable won't improve the performance of an ATA 100 drive, but upgrading to a ATA133 cable for a ATA 133 hard drive will improve performance.

Answer 4

Yes, but only if both your motherboard and Hard Drive supports the higher ATA133 speed. Otherwise, it won't make a difference in your speed.

Answer 5

NOT AT ALL THAT YOU WILL NOTICE - if you run benchmark it might show you incremental speed measured in miliseconds and that won't be noticed either by yr computer or by you - expense won't justify performance - you'll just waste yr money