- Apr 15, 2004
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Hi,
I have a 5 years old pc running Celeron 500. It uses a ATA66 Quantum 13G HD. It's 5400rpm. Too slow. So I bought a WD 80G 8MB cache HDD, hope to make it a bit faster.
Now about the cable. The original one used by the 13G has 40 wires. I know ATA100 harddisk should use 80 wires cable. But in this case, I don't think the mobo supports ATA100 anyway. So should I use a 80 wires cable? Does it really matter if I keep using that 40 wires one?
Thanks.
I have a 5 years old pc running Celeron 500. It uses a ATA66 Quantum 13G HD. It's 5400rpm. Too slow. So I bought a WD 80G 8MB cache HDD, hope to make it a bit faster.
Now about the cable. The original one used by the 13G has 40 wires. I know ATA100 harddisk should use 80 wires cable. But in this case, I don't think the mobo supports ATA100 anyway. So should I use a 80 wires cable? Does it really matter if I keep using that 40 wires one?
Thanks.