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OK, WTH! CompUSA is selling a 160GB HD with an ATA100 controller?!

J

JackBurton

Lifer
I thought you need an ATA133 controller to see past ~125GB. The ad says the controller is included in the Maxtor retail package. Do you think it is a misprint, or are alot of people going to end up with a 125GB drive?
 
You could just set up another partition, could you not? They'll probably just tell you that.

-RSI
 
OH NO, I'm sure it is a 160GB EIDE drive, I just don't know about the ATA100 controller. But ya, I'm sure you could set up two partitions, but I'd only want one.
 


<< I thought you need an ATA133 controller to see past ~125GB. The ad says the controller is included in the Maxtor retail package. Do you think it is a misprint, or are alot of people going to end up with a 125GB drive? >>



I thought ATA## had nothing to do with supported drive size. As far as I know it represent the peak thoroughput and supported drive size is independent of that.

 
160 GB EIDE Ultra ATA/133 5400 RPM Hard Drive with Card


Taken directly from Comp USA site. $299(would rule all for storage) sold out though. 🙁

Max HDD size on ATA/100 is 127GB, and no you could not just split the drive into 2 partitions if it was ATA/100, it would only recognize the drive as 127GB.
 
you gotta love how much returns CompUSA is getting for those 160GBs, and they do free install! He good luck!
 
Dude, that is weird! I have the ad in my hand and it says UDMA100. I guess it was a misprint. I need to get a few of these. 😀
 
At least they got the important part right, the 160GB.

Thanks for pointing it out, 160GB is very sweet for storage.
 


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<< I thought you need an ATA133 controller to see past ~125GB. The ad says the controller is included in the Maxtor retail package. Do you think it is a misprint, or are alot of people going to end up with a 125GB drive? >>



I thought ATA## had nothing to do with supported drive size. As far as I know it represent the peak thoroughput and supported drive size is independent of that. >>



With the ATA/133 spec. maxtor added support for drives >125GB
 
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