Who makes the ATA 133 hard drives?

[Regs]

I looked around newegg.com and found very little versions of the ATA 133 hard drives. I know Maxtor makes a 133 but how about others? You know any company that makes a good realiable ATA 133 hard drive?

 

[LED]

That's it AFAIK and 133 seems to be 1 stepping stone to SATA with new Mobo intergrated as the 66/100's perform just as well if not better do to the limited trans rates that IDE give

 

[oldfart]

Since it offers little to no performance gain over ATA100 or ATA66 for that matter, most HD mfgrs haven't bothered with it.

 

[human2k]

Originally posted by: oldfart
Since it offers little to no performance gain over ATA100 or ATA66 for that matter, most HD mfgrs haven't bothered with it.

Exactly! ATA133 is just hype, try to find a hard drive that can maintain ATA100 speed first .

 

[hclarkjr]

i have a maxtor 80 GIG ATA133 that has been running fine for me for 4 months now with no trouble at all. i use it as a storage drive with my WD JB1200 hard drive as my OS drive. they are pretty cheap now too

 

[Confused]

Maxtor have the rights on the ATA133 name, and have licenced it to mainboard manufacturers. There is absolutely NO performance increase going from ATA100 to ATA133, because none of the drives out at the moment can even saturate the ATA100 spec, and probably only just the ATA66 spec.



Confused

 

[CaptnKirk]

As Confused mentioned, ATA133 is a Maxtor thing, that isn't any faster if even as fast as a Western Digital. WD seems to be a more efficient device with their ATA100 anyway.
But... and that's a BIG (_|_), if you do happen to put a pair of these in RAID, or run them off of an ATA133 I/O Card, like a Promise Controlled, in theroy it's a little faster.
Not much price difference between the 120GB Maxtor & WD though, flip a coin, I have 2 of each in my system 2 120GB WD for pics, music, & editing. Maxtors in the RAID array.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
As Confused mentioned, ATA133 is a Maxtor thing, that isn't any faster if even as fast as a Western Digital. WD seems to be a more efficient device with their ATA100 anyway.
But... and that's a BIG (_|_), if you do happen to put a pair of these in RAID, or run them off of an ATA133 I/O Card, like a Promise Controlled, in theroy it's a little faster.
Not much price difference between the 120GB Maxtor & WD though, flip a coin, I have 2 of each in my system 2 120GB WD for pics, music, & editing. Maxtors in the RAID array.

The performance of a RAID is entirely unaffected by the drives being ATA133 - they're on separate channels which are never gonig to use that much bandwith. It's not even theoretically faster since the bottleneck is in the drive mechanism, not the interface...

 

[majewski9]

parallel ata will be dead within 2 years but the ATA 133 drive maker is Maxtor. I own an ATA 133 drive and ill be moving to a board with ATA 133 very soon. Right now I still using it ATA 100 speeds but I dont think ill see any hard drive performance gain. Serial ATA 150 also seems like a lot of hype until serial ATA 300 comes out next year. I dont know I have been hearing there will be 10000 rpm serial ATA drives out! So maybe even the switch to SATA 150 will be worth it.

 

[Regs]

I could some what imagine the noise of a 10000 rpm HDD!

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Regs
I could some what imagine the noise of a 10000 rpm HDD!

There are 15.000 RPM harddrives that are rather quiet.
More specifically the Cheetah 15K.3.

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Regs
I could some what imagine the noise of a 10000 rpm HDD!

There are 15.000 RPM harddrives that are rather quiet.
More specifically the Cheetah 15K.3.

Ya faster spinning HDs aren't really that much louder then 7.2krpm

Thorin

 

[T9D]

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[ugh]

Originally posted by: xerosleep
I have a maxtor 40 gig ata 133.
It didn't cost any extra so weather it makes a huge difference or not doesn't really matter, it works great, is fast and I like it.

I've got one myself too. I was surprised it booted up at ATA133. Don't really notice the difference though.

 

[thorin]

Since the current best (ATA) drive on the market maxes @ ~59MB/Sec ... ATA100 and ATA133 are complete marketting hype and BS.

Thorin

 

[poMONKey]

... better to have an 8 MB buffer than ata133

 

[Regs]

I went with a WD SE with the 8MB buffer, it was on sale of course. My bro-in-law has the 133 and he has not said much about it..lol.

 

[PCboy]

didn't quantum introduce all the ata specs? 33, 66 and 100?... and since maxtor bought out quantum... i would guess it's only logical to assume that's the reason why.

 

[Sid59]

go marketing genuises at Maxtor .. ATA133 ..33% faster than ata100 .. hahah .. i bought an 80 giger and its awesome so i bought the 120 gig.