Any advantage to a Ultra ATA100 Controller card?

[Guest_imported]

I have a AMD Athlon 700 and a 20 Gig 7200 RPM hard drive. I was wondering if adding a ATA100 controller would speed up my system at all. Thanks

 

[pauser]

I don't have a large experience with this subject to give the final answer, but I can tell you my experience. I benchmarked an ATA100 HD (Seagate 7200rpm) using the UDMA ports 66 and 100 of a motherboard (ASUS A7V133). I had a speed gain of 32%. I'm not sure this is an acceptable number for general applications and I recognize my methodology was quite simple, but maybe we have a concise and obvious answer here: ATA100 is faster than ATA66. If you have a fast HD, it may be a good option.

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[osuman]

The drive has to support ATA 100. You didn't specifically say it did and I would assume you know so, thought i'd mention it anyway. Justin

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[Karl Blessing]

ATA/100 control's primary purpose is to allow you to use an ATA/100 drive on a system which motherboard does not have support for ATA/100 , but a good use I've found is that, it is also backward compatible to any IDE drives, sooo , if you want to connection 4 more drives up in your machine, that can be viewed as SCSI drives, you can use a controler card for some extra drive hookups. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[Zorlod]

You can find a good ATA100 card for around 30 bucks. If this allows you to put more drives in, or get you IDE devices on separate chanels, it's well worth it, imho.

 

[Karl Blessing]

Promiser Ultra ATA/100 controler is about the best controler I've seen for the ammount you pay, if you are into a server, I would look into a RAID controler, so that you have the ability to mirror two drives for backup/security purposes. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}