Wouldn't i benefit from a motherboard with ultra ata controller with a ata100 HD???

[Lombardaga]

with a IBM 75 GXP ATA100 30 GB HD would it be the wisest to buy an ATA100 mobo??

 

[AngelOfDeath]

In theory you should be able to see a difference but from what most people experience in here there isn't any benifits. But I think it gave me a boost and I did try a few tests which gave a difference in performance with and without the Controller respectively. But as I say this might as well be my brain searching for that boost while there really isn't any.

Anyway if you consider having the ATA100 then buy a mobo without the ATA100 and buy the controller instaed. I had troubles with these mobos with ATA66 controllers. And by buying it seperatly you can choose to upgrade to a raid or something later on.

IMHO

AoD

 

[Lombardaga]

is this the final and right answer to thw question???

 

[Lombardaga]

so r u saying u had troubles with ATA66 mobos as well??? What r my possibilities then???

 

[AngelOfDeath]

Yes I tried a couple of mobo's with 4 IDE-ports 2 ATA33 and 2ATA66, and it didn't work quiet satisfying. If I were you I would buy a mobo with only 1 pair of IDE-controllers and then buy a PCI-controller and use that instaed.

Hopefully more will answer your thread, but now we'll see

AoD

 

[riftwalker]

Current quality boards have ata100 controllers. If you have using only a single ide drive on a channel, it will not use even close to that no current ide drive gets that 100MB/s (highest is around 44MB/s I think) throughput. I have seen some site claim this but that isn't the deal, you think if the disk could in any situation the company wouldn't claim that? If you plan to daisy chain (i.e master/slave) to high throughput drives like the IMB you mentioned then an ata 100 will do well for you possibly. If you plan on keeping your board for a while, then that means
1)you want the best board you can afford now, with all the current technology, so when you upgrade next you may just be a step behind current. All in all unless you never plan to upgrade on this board ata 100 can be useful. Hope this helps.