Will ATA66 cables lower ATA100 performance?

[Quad]

i have an ata100 hard drive. do i NEED to buy ata100 cables? or can i go for the cheaper ata66 cables. what's the difference? will performance suffer?

thanks a lot

quad

 

[Biggs]

I do believe ATA-66 and ATA-100 are the same 80-pin cable.

 

[urbantechie]

There is no such thing as ATA100 cables. You use the same cable for ATA66/100 HDDs.

 

[Boonesmi]

yes i also belive that ata 66 and ata 100 cables are the same

 

[Quad]

oh , k

thanks guys. cuz the "ata66" cable is $12 (cdn) while the 100 was $19...
rip offs i tell ya! 🙂

thanks again

 

[Noriaki]

There are 80wire ATA cables, these work for any mode up to and including ATA100.
There are 40wire ATA cables, these work only up to ATA33.

Are you sure that's not the two different cables? There is no difference in ATA66vsATA100 cables...someone's trying to rip you if they are trying to sell an "ATA100" cable at a higher price than an ATA66.

 

[urbantechie]

No Problem 🙂

 

[Quad]

Noriaki: i double checked the pricing again at ncix.com and yes they are charging more for the "ata100" cable. they advertised as such:

5910 40/80 PIN ATA100 IDE CABLE 3 HEADS Yes $ 19 ORDER
5180 40/80 PIN ATA66 IDE CABLE 3 HEADS Yes $ 12 ORDER

looks BS to me. i'll get the ata66 ones.

thanks again

 

[Yuckysgf]

Maybe one is longer than the other? That's the only explanation I can think of. But they still suck for posting crap,

 

[Noriaki]

<< looks BS to me. i'll get the ata66 ones. >>

Yeah me to....40pin/80wire cables are ATA66 or ATA100...I use the same cables for my ATA100 IBM 75GXP on Promise Ultra as I used for my old harddrive for ATA66 on my Mobo's controller.

 

[Rand]

ATA66 and ATA100 cables are one and the same.

 

[LeeBear]

$19 Canadian for an ATA66/100 cable? Are those cables made of gold or something cause that's the only reason I can think of for them charging so much or you're buying them from Future Shop 🙂 I pick up my ATA66/100 cables at a local mom/pop shop here and it only costs me $5 CDN, so somebody's making some big profits 🙂

-LeeBear

 

[UKspace]

bloody hell, what a rip off!