Maxtor 160 GB ATA hard drive questions??

[victor voul]

I am interested in purchasing a second hard drive(160 GB Maxtor) to
use as a drive dedicated to video editing.

The Maxtor box indicates it comes with an "ultra ATA/133 PCI card"

My question is - will I have to install this PCI card on my 2 year old
Dell 8200 Pentium 4 XP, or is it packaged only for PCs with older
systems.

Will my Dell8200 be compatible with this Maxtor 160 mb hard drive or
will the hard drive have compatibility problems.??

Thanks or your help!

Jim

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I am interested in purchasing a second hard drive(160 GB Maxtor) to
use as a drive dedicated to video editing.

The Maxtor box indicates it comes with an "ultra ATA/133 PCI card"

My question is - will I have to install this PCI card on my 2 year old
Dell 8200 Pentium 4 XP, or is it packaged only for PCs with older
systems.

Will my Dell8200 be compatible with this Maxtor 160 mb hard drive or
will the hard drive have compatibility problems.??

Here are the specs for what I assume is your machine:
http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/dim8200/specs.htm

Here are the specs for the Promise ATA/133 controller card:
<http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=87&familyId=3>

The 8200 controller handles ATA/66 and ATA100. It will
run the new Maxtor drive at the ATA/100 channel speed.
Maxtor's controller card (made by Promise) will allow
your machine to use the new Maxtor at ATA/133 channel
speeds. It will also free up your motherboard's ATA
controller for other devices.


*TimDaniels*

 

[Rod Speed]

I am interested in purchasing a second hard drive(160
GB Maxtor) to use as a drive dedicated to video editing.

The Maxtor box indicates it comes with an "ultra ATA/133 PCI card"

My question is - will I have to install this PCI
card on my 2 year old Dell 8200 Pentium 4 XP,

Probably not, but it can be the simplest approach.

or is it packaged only for PCs with older systems.

Yes, but particularly with support for drives over 128GB,
yours may need it. More strictly you may need to flash
the motherboard bios for drives over 128GB and that card
ensures that you wouldnt need to do that, just use the card.

Will my Dell8200 be compatible with this Maxtor 160 mb hard drive

None of the roughly 10 bios flash upgrades on the dell web site
mention support for drives over 128GB, so likely yours is already fine.

or will the hard drive have compatibility problems.??

Unlikely and you should be able to update the bios if there is.