ATA100 vs ATA133

[Guest]

My system is a Dell Dimension 5260 with 2 80G hard drives, both ATA100. I am
looking to buy a 200 or 300G drive to replace the boot drive. All I see are
SATA or ATA133 drives in that size range. I'm sure SATA is too new to run in
this older system, but will ATA133 work in this system? And, can you have
both ATA100 and ATA133 drives in the same system?

Thanks,
Les

 

[Bob I]

Ata100 and Ata 133 are compatible.

 

[DanS]

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but will ATA133 work
in this system? And, can you have both ATA100 and ATA133 drives in the
same system?

Thanks,
Les

Yes......

and Yes.

 

[Guest]

Have you contacted Dell tech support?

 

[Travis King]

Yes, they are both compatible, but here's the deal. If your motherboard
doesn't support ATA133, the hard drive will only run at ATA100 instead of
ATA133.

 

[kurttrail]

Yes, they are both compatible, but here's the deal. If your
motherboard doesn't support ATA133, the hard drive will only run at
ATA100 instead of ATA133.

Ding, ding, ding, ding!

We have a winner! Though you should have probably narrowed it down to
the IDE controller.

A PCI ATA133 IDE controller can be had for around $25.

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[Travis King]

If you were going to go that far to get a new controller, you might as well
get a SATA controller for a little bit extra and get a SATA hard drive,
right? (A SATA controller that also supports IDE.) There are some out
there.

 

[R. McCarty]

SATA-II controllers & drives are now available. So if you want to
go with SATA I'd go ahead and buy SATA-II standard hardware.
Our local Tiger Direct Outlet store has a controller for ~$50 and
a Seagate 160 Gigabyte SATA-II drive for ~$50. A pretty good
upgrade for a hundred dollars.

 

[kurttrail]

If you were going to go that far to get a new controller, you might
as well get a SATA controller for a little bit extra and get a SATA
hard drive, right? (A SATA controller that also supports IDE.) There
are some out there.

Yep. I wasn't really recommending upgrading, I was just saying that it
would have been more correct to say "IDE Controller," rather than
"motherboard."

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[Jonny]

ATA133 is a change to the onboard cache buffer transfer rate over ATA100. A
standard PCI bus can't move data that fast. And, the cached buffer is
seldom used in transfers. Rather, throughput transfers directly from the
hard drive onboard platter(s).
Lotta humbug over practically nothing in everyday use.
You need an ATA133 controller as well.
Your system will backpedal to ATA100 if needed.