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NiTeFiRe
08-01-2005, 06:00 PM
My motherboard supports UltraDMA 133/100. But I wanted to buy a SATA hard drive as a slave, is this possible? Thanks.
MSE OP
08-01-2005, 06:11 PM
no
tsehou
08-01-2005, 06:19 PM
To use the SATA hard drive you would have to buy a SATA adapter that plugs into a PCI slot. This will then have the required SATA ports that you can plug a SATA hard drive into.
AMD
08-01-2005, 06:33 PM
There is no benefit of going for SATA unless a much more expensive, high end drive is to be installed.

The bandwidth used by most hard drives is less than that of what even ATA100/133 offers.

On systems with an integrated SATA controller, it's a different story because the cost is similar. However, there is no point buying a device which requires a separate PCI card when there is little or no benefit. The more devices a computer has, the slower and less reliable it is.
NiTeFiRe
08-01-2005, 06:50 PM
Hmm, so what can i use with UltraDMA? just those types of drive's? Can't find any of them on..ebay..lol
MSE OP
08-01-2005, 07:17 PM
look for IDE drives
NiTeFiRe
08-01-2005, 08:29 PM
They should work with my mobo?
MSE OP
08-01-2005, 08:39 PM
thats what you have now
tsehou
08-01-2005, 09:10 PM
IDE hard drives operate at UDMA 133 and below.

SATA hard drives are usually referred to as SATA 150 or SATA 300, which means have a theoretical maximum transfer speed of 1.5gbps or 3.0gbps. These are very theoretical and these speeds are never reached due to the physical limitation of hard drives today.