Hard Drive

[aznspikeys]

Does the INTEL Desktop Board D875PBZ support Ultra ATA/133 hard drives? ..i'm using 80GB ultra ATA 100 2mb but i am thinking to add a new hard drive.....160GB Ultra ATA 133 8mb. i dont want to spend alot of money on ATA 133 if my computer doesn't support 133.
another question is ....if i use 2 hard drives at the same time...it's gonna run at 100 or 133?

thanks

[Virtualbody1234]

Two Parallel ATA IDE interfaces with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support

Source: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/

And I guess the second question isn't so important now but if you had a board which supported ATA133 and you connected 2 drives, one ATA100 and the other ATA133, then they would each run at specified speeds.

[clocker]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@11 November 2003 - 18:00


And I guess the second question isn't so important now but if you had a board which supported ATA133 and you connected 2 drives, one ATA100 and the other ATA133, then they would each run at specified speeds.
Really? I didn't know that.

So I suppose it would make sense to use the fast one as your C: drive and the slow one for storage?
Could you actually notice the speed difference do you think?

[Virtualbody1234]

No, I don't think you would see the difference. I fact i'm not even sure the drives ever really use the extra bandwidth. Maybe the occasional peak?

[clocker]

What activity is the most HDD intensive?

Outside of the benchmark tests, what real-life work makes your HDD earn it's keep?

[Virtualbody1234]

I think the most intensive HD use is when doing maintenence like defragmenting or scanning for viri or even copying large files.

[aznspikeys]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@12 November 2003 - 02:00

Two Parallel ATA IDE interfaces with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support

Source: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/

And I guess the second question isn't so important now but if you had a board which supported ATA133 and you connected 2 drives, one ATA100 and the other ATA133, then they would each run at specified speeds.
so you mean my mother board does not support 133? .....that's suck. coz my board is pretty new....is there any way that i can get 133 by using cards and stuff?

[SciManAl]

rendering 3d movies can be, as the hardrive can be recording gigs and gigs of data as it renders...

[Virtualbody1234]

so you mean my mother board does not support 133? .....that's suck. coz my board is pretty new....is there any way that i can get 133 by using cards and stuff?
You could add a card but I don't think it wouldn't be worth it. Just get a good ATA100 drive.

For a high performance 160 GB - ATA100 drive: http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsa...081,578,00.html (http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,578,00.html)

[clocker]

Originally posted by SciManAl@11 November 2003 - 19:03
rendering 3d movies can be, as the hardrive can be recording gigs and gigs of data as it renders...
So trying to render Gigli into a watchable film would be a real workout for the HDD? :P

[SciManAl]

hehehe, possibly... gigli is a pretty big feature... :rolleyes: :D

I make animations, and the raw ouput that you get originally can be over 100 gigs, for full lentgh, ( as in 2+ hours) but yes it could be straining...

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by SciManAl@11 November 2003 - 21:03
rendering 3d movies can be, as the hardrive can be recording gigs and gigs of data as it renders...
I don't think you really reach the peak HDD bandwidth doing that. Your CPU would be too busy to devote power to tranfer at those peaks.

[TheFilePirater]

usally your mobo will say if it supports ata133
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/guys/ata133.JPG
Taken From TFP's Badass rig...hehe

[DL.]

Originally posted by aznspikeys@12 November 2003 - 00:41
Does the INTEL Desktop Board D875PBZ support Ultra ATA/133 hard drives? ..i'm using 80GB ultra ATA 100 2mb but i am thinking to add a new hard drive.....160GB Ultra ATA 133 8mb. i dont want to spend alot of money on ATA 133 if my computer doesn't support 133.
another question is ....if i use 2 hard drives at the same time...it's gonna run at 100 or 133?

thanks
Your motherboard supports serial ata 150! You don't need an ATA card, go for something like this:
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Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JD , 160 GB Hard Drive
$135- $185

160 GB, 7200 rpm, Standard Type, Internal Enclosure, Serial ATA-150 Interface, 3.5" x 1/3H , For: PC Platforms See full specs
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A review of the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA Hard Drive using a Highpoint SATA PCI card 1520 on a NON SATA motherboard.

http://www.pchardware.co.uk/maxtor200gbsata.htm