Chaining ATA133 to ATA100 hard drive

[kimchee411]

I currently have a 40GB ATA100 hard drive, and since I'm constantly wrestling with low disk space issues I'm going to buy an additional 160GB ATA133 drive. Will using the new drive as a slave to my primary disk pose any issues, i.e. will the old ATA100 drive bottleneck the new ATA133 drive?

 

[LTC8K6]

No, they will all run at their own speeds as long as they are UDMA/UATA drives.

Actually, ata133, 100, and 66 all run about the same real world speeds anyway.

 

[CraigRT]

Don't worry about the ATAspeed anyway, as LTC already pointed out, it's not really an issue at all.