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  • IBM Deskstar and UltraDMA/33: Possible?

    I'm planning to get an IBM Deskstar HD after hearing much of its reputation. Do you think it can work on my ASUS P3B-F motherboard which supports only UltraDMA/33 ?
    If yes, would its performance be greatly degraded?
    Thanks for all advices.
    SuRGV
    MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum
    AMD Athlon 64 3200
    1024 MB PC3200 RAM
    WD 160 GB HDD
    2 x 80 GB Maxtor HDDs in RAID 1
    ATI 9500 64 Videocard
    Pioneer 108 DVD-RW
    Pioneer 117 DVD-ROM
    Windows XP Professional SP2

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    I know it will work. I have mine running at UDMA/66 in windows, and /33 in Linux. Besides, there is a program you can download from IBM that will set the speed of the drive, with no data loss.

    The performance will not be degraded very much, just the initial burst. My drive (45GB 75gxp) benches at 21MB/s.

    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      like Wombat says, the drive will work as it's backward compatible!
      mind you,I use it on a promise ata100 controller card to extract its max potential.

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      • #4
        Thanks guys. I got the information you guys talking about on IBM's website. I should have visited it before bothering my everybody here.
        Thanks again.
        SuRGV
        MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum
        AMD Athlon 64 3200
        1024 MB PC3200 RAM
        WD 160 GB HDD
        2 x 80 GB Maxtor HDDs in RAID 1
        ATI 9500 64 Videocard
        Pioneer 108 DVD-RW
        Pioneer 117 DVD-ROM
        Windows XP Professional SP2

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