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

[JackBurton]

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?

 

[RSI]

You could just set up another partition, could you not? They'll probably just tell you that.

-RSI

 

[Demonicon]

No IDE drive is 160GB that I have heard of, maybe misprint? There is a 160GB SCSI drive however.

 

[JackBurton]

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.

 

[Jerboy]

<< 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.

 

[Demonicon]

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.

 

[Demonicon]

OOPS!

 

[Byte]

you gotta love how much returns CompUSA is getting for those 160GBs, and they do free install! He good luck!

 

[JackBurton]

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.

 

[Demonicon]

At least they got the important part right, the 160GB.

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

 

[BlakkIce]

its ata133 card it must be an misprint i have one in my server

 

[JackBurton]

Man, talk about an all day format.

 

[Scootin159]

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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