What is ATA/100?

[sirjahmez]

Well. I need a new hard drive for my old HP which only has 40 gigs and I saw that there is a Barracuda 160GB, 7200 RPM, Internal ATA/100 Hard Drive for sale. The HP I want to put it in only has an IDE port. Will it work? If not then I have another comp which runs on a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum and will the ATA/100 work on that? I look on the website and it says it has "Dual Fast ATA-133 IDE controllers", not ATA/100. I can always take the one in the MSI comp and use that in my HP. Thanx

 

[n0cmonkey]

ATA/100 is an IDE standard. It's backwards compatible, as are IDE slots.

 

[Insidious]

yes, it will work just fine.

(an ATA133 IDE controller supports ATA66, 100 or 133)

-Sid

 

[imported_Kensai]

Don't forget about ATA33.

 

[Insidious]