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B&W G3 LARGER HARD DRIVE
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<blockquote data-quote="jhelm007" data-source="post: 133827" data-attributes="member: 6916"><p>33 or 66 MHz is way faster than any hard drive on the end user market dtoday can transfer data.</p><p></p><p>The 66 or 33 in ATA33 or ATA66 is the transfer speed in MB/s not a MHz speed.</p><p></p><p>The PCI bus is plenty fast to handle the throughput of up to 4 hard drives even at RAID speeds.</p><p></p><p>I have a PCI ATA Host on my B&W because it has a Rev 1 MoBo, but I think even if I had a Rev. 2, I would keep the Host adapter because of the performance advantage.</p><p></p><p>In any case ATA100/133 drives are backwards compatible with the ATA33/66 bus on your MoBo so (except for the size restriction) you can install a much bigger drive (i.e. 80gig) for relatively cheaply. And I can't think of a reason not to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jhelm007, post: 133827, member: 6916"] 33 or 66 MHz is way faster than any hard drive on the end user market dtoday can transfer data. The 66 or 33 in ATA33 or ATA66 is the transfer speed in MB/s not a MHz speed. The PCI bus is plenty fast to handle the throughput of up to 4 hard drives even at RAID speeds. I have a PCI ATA Host on my B&W because it has a Rev 1 MoBo, but I think even if I had a Rev. 2, I would keep the Host adapter because of the performance advantage. In any case ATA100/133 drives are backwards compatible with the ATA33/66 bus on your MoBo so (except for the size restriction) you can install a much bigger drive (i.e. 80gig) for relatively cheaply. And I can't think of a reason not to do it. [/QUOTE]
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