Which is faster: onboard IDE or Maxtor ATA00 card

[jpetermann]

Hey all. I am wondering which would be faster, if there even is a difference. I have a maxtor hd that I boot from, and I was wondering if you think it will boot faster on the Mboard IDE or the maxtor card.. what do you think?

 

[bomb2112]

Onboard is faster. The Maxtor PCI card stalls for awhile scanning for devices.

 

[jpetermann]

How about in using the drive. After the initial boot, will it run faster on the board on on the Maxtor card?

 

[joshg]

dunno if this has any importance, but have you thought about the bandwidth issues here? When using OnBoard IDE, doesn't it just go from the controller to your chipset, so only bandwidth throttling at the controller? Whereas using a PCI card, you have bandwidth throttling first from the controller of the PCI card, then from the PCI bus itself... methinks it seems logical that onboard IDE is prolly faster, whereas an additional ide card would be good for stuff like slave hard drives if ya need them, and your DVD/CD/CDRW/ZIP/LS120 Drives 😀

 

[jpetermann]

Good point. I was just wondering. I have never used the Maxtor card before, and I am wanting (obviously) to have it as fast as I can. Thanks for the thgouhts.

 

[Nothinman]

Both will have to go through the PCI bus, onboard cards are just like PCI cards except they're embedded in the board. Hell PS/2 devices are connected to the ISA bus even though they're onboard.

And both should be about the same speed, IDE is IDE. The only difference might be if the expansion card scans for new drives every time instead of using the CMOS like the onboard ones do, but IDE autodetects pretty fast now so that shouldn't be a worry.