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Is ATA100 backward compatible with ATA66?

AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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I'm thinking about buying an ATA100 drive for my computer. The bus only supports ATA66, will the ATA100 dirve work on the ATA66 connection? The only reason I ask is that I will probably hold off on buying the controller card for a while if I can, damn college takes all my money, hehe.
 
Yes a ATA100 drive will work on a ATA66 bus.

The best drive on the market (according to popular opinion and storagereview) is the IBM Deskstar series. It only pushes 37.5MB/sec sustained, which barely justifies the upgrade to an ATA66 bus let alone an ATA100 bus. Don't bother shelling out for a ATA100 card save your money and get a SerialATA card when they come out then you'll see some improvements.

Thorin
 
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