what controller card is best for an ata66 hd?

[lepper boy]

that's teh question..... the most bang for your buck...

 

[andylawcc]

IMO, there only 2 reason you need a Controller Card

1) you ran out of IDE slots.
2) you gonna RAID (which is not that necessary)

a ATA66/100 controller card isn't gonna make it any faster, unless you have 2 top of the line IDE hard drive under the same controller, then you may see some bottleneck in a ATA33.

a good ATA66 controller card is Promise.

 

[luvrambus]

I disagree with the last reply. Of course it will make it faster, much faster. If you have an ata66 hard drive and don't have a controller card(or a mobo that has ata66)then your hard drive will only run at UDMA33. Keep in mind that you also need an 80-pin ata cable (usualy comes with the card or the mobo and sometimes even the drive) and you also need the drivers to enable ata66. It's not that there will be a bottleneck, it's that the hd is only running at 33. to answer the posted question, Promise is pretty much the standard ata66 controller card; there are some others (such as generic) but not many.

 

[obeseotron]

I'm gonna use my favorite analogy of a riding lawn mower on the Autobahn again. Slow cars (hard drives) don't go any faster on fast roads (interfaces). There is one drive that barely utilizes ata66 right now, and that is the gxp75, nothing else breaks 32Mb/sec. andy is right.

 

[lepper boy]

so which is right.... any more comments?