Question about ATA/133

[Mears]

When did this come out and what is required to support it? I take it it still uses ata/66 cables right? Also, does the mobo need to only support ATA/100 to use it or does it need to support ATA/133?

 

[Crassus]

As far as I know you will need both a new controller (i.e. Southbridge, meaning: mobo), supporting UATA-133,and likewise a new harddisk. I guess the cables will stay the same. You could add of course a controller card, doing the job,

 

[Vegito]

i rather just wait for serial ata.. unless it can really double my ata/66...

 

[nightowl]

The biggest difference between ATA133 and ATA66/100 is its ability to support drives larger than 137GB. Currently 137GB is the limit for ATA66/100. Other than that difference there is not really anything different between the two. The use the same cables and interface as before.

 

[Bagheera]

The current ATA-100 standard mobos will not support the new ATA-133 hard drives. Of course, you do not need to buy a whole new motherboard to get the ATA-133. If you really want to buy an ATA-133 hard drive, which I believe is to come out in Q1 next year (I think Quantum was the one leading this launch), you can buy a ATA-133 adaptor card (which is probably PCI interface) so you don't need to waste money on a whole new mobo.

Hope that answers your question.

 

[Bagheera]

Sorry, a bit of grammer mistake I made.

The ATA-100 mobo WILL support ATA-133, but it just won't run at the full potential speed of 100MB/sec. If you want to unleash the full potential of a ATA-133 hard drive, you'll need an ATA-133 adaptor or a new mobo that supports ATA-133.

And yes it uses the same interface as ATA-100. But if your mobo only supports ATA-100, I don't see any reason why you would want to waste money on a ATA-133 HDD and then run it at ATA-100.

 

[Mears]

Actually, can HDs even reach ata/133 speeds? I was always under the impression that they couldn't even achieve transfer rates up to ata/100.

 

[Sam1230]

I'm getting a:

MAXTOR 80.0GB DX6L080J4 EIDE ULTRA-ATA 133 8.5MS 7200RPM 2MB BUFFER (Bare drive w/3yr warranty)


Does the Asus A7V266-E motherboard support ATA/133?

-Sam

Edit: Cool! The Maxtor hard drive I mentioned above was $235 yesterday, now it's $185!