Old Motherboards ATA133????

[wildone]

Ok here is the deal ,I bought a 60 gig 7200 RPM ATA133 Maxtor drive,just for the heck of it I ran Sandra on it to see how it benched and I was shocked.Does anyone have benchmarks of a real ATA133 setup,if so please post a pic ,this os on a Shuttle ak31 rev 3 board ,and the Drive only runs around 90-96 F ,not to bad for a 7200 rpm drive I dont think.

wildone

 

[nikhsub1]

Not really sure what you want to know? First of all Sandra's HD benching really sucks, use HDTach 2.61. Obviously the drive is running at ATA100 since the AK31 does not support ATA133. That being said, you could get the promise ATA133 controller and plug it into a PCI slot and then you would get true ATA133, however, your speed increase will be minimal.

 

[wildone]

Well what I dont get is my maxtor ATA100 drive scores 24110,almost exactly the same as the standard ,let me see if I can find HDtach ,just to see the difference.

wildone

 

[Yodums]

My Quantm Fireball AS20 ATA100 7200 RPM scores 26K.

Yodums

 

[wildone]

My Quantm Fireball AS20 ATA100 7200 RPM scores 26K.

Yodums

DOH!

hmmmm ,so what is the performance gain if any from ata133?

wildone

 

[nikhsub1]

DOH!

hmmmm ,so what is the performance gain if any from ata133?

wildone

Remember on the AK-31 that drive is running ATA100, not 133! Second the diff between the 2 is very small! You can look at this thread too, I did a test between an ATA100 and an ATA133 Raid card.

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72256

 

[Yodums]

Remember on the AK-31 that drive is running ATA100, not 133! Second the diff between the 2 is very small! You can look at this thread too, I did a test between an ATA100 and an ATA133 Raid card.

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72256

Absolutely right, there is not much of a gain in performance between the two, the only difference maybe getting a WD drive which has the 8mb buffer.