Will a hard drive rated ATA 133/100 work with a MB with only ATA 66?

[Smoke]

Got a buddy ready to buy a new hard drive but needs to know if a hard drive rated ATA 133/100 (such as the Maxtor Model HDPMAID40GB for $86 - $89 plus shipping) would work with a motherboard that only has ATA66/33 IDE interface?

He may be wanting to upgrade this motherboard in the not too distant future to one that would handle the ATA133/100.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Yep, it'll work fine.. and probably have the same performance as a board with ata 100/133.. drives can't actually transfer files over about 45MB/sec still (unless you get some phenominal drive that I haven't heard of), so ata66 works great for now.

Josh

 

[Smoke]

Thanks Josh. 🙂

He (We) were going to wait until we learned it was OK to buy that HD. I really appreciate your quick response. 😀

 

[networkman]

Yep, he's right - it'll work fine at the slower speed.. I have a couple systems here with the same situation. 🙂

 

[Frodolives]

You'll wanna be sure and use an 80 wire ide cable though, or I guess it will default to ata33 performance.

 

[Smoke]

Frodolives, That's a rog' on the 80 wire cable. Thanks for the tip. 🙂

You too, networkman 😀