66mhz hard drives?

[Placid]

I asked about controllers before but I forgot to ask about hard drives.
Since they sell 66mhz pci controller cards do you need to use special hard drives with these?
I am wondering if overclocking with a 33-66mhz pci controller card
would have any advantage to using the 33mhz onboard hd controller.

[Kingslayer]

Ok. You mean 33 and 66 Mbps. Not Mhz.

You dont need to use special hard drives on these. If you put a UDMA66 hard drive on it, it will run at 66. If you put a UDMA33 harddrive on it, it will run at 33. If you put a UDMA100 or 133 on it, it will run at 66.

If you do get a UDMA66 controller card (although you should get a 100 card seeing they are out and just as cheap) get a UDMA66 hard drive to take full advantadge of the drives capabilities. You dont have to, but it's nice.

[Placid]

No I mean 66mhz pci.
If you look at the newer promise hard drive controllers they work in 33mhz pci bus or 66mhz pci bus motherboards.
So I am wondering if you have a 66mhz pci motherboard and one of these promise controllers do you need to use a special hard drive.
If not then It seems to me maybe these controllers would be more overclocking tolerant when used on a 33mhz pci board than the onboard controller.

[TheCrow]

There aren´t any 66 Mhz HDs!
66mHZ PCI only doubles the speed of controller cards!
Thats all i know!

[Ridenow]

I know what you are talking about. No, there is no difference in the hard drives.

[Placid]

Ok thanks, maybe I will try one and see if it can be pushed pretty far over the 33mhz spec.

[Dark Illusion]

I reckon it might be like O/C'ing RDRAM. 1mhz in FSB would increase RDRAM by 4mhz.

Just a theory, since 64bit 66mhz are 4X as much thru'put. But then, it's 5:30am here and I can't think=P