WD ATA100 vs Samsung ATA133

[FDTzeng]

Ok of course ATA133 is supposed to be faster but will spec this actually make a real difference? Cuz 133MB/s is the maximum but does it actually reach that speed?

As for the brands, of course Maxtor is also a contender but for arguments sake that we only have these to options. These are both 120GB w/ 8MB buffer.

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[4Ryan6]

Actually with the 8Mb cache, an ATA133 would definitely be the way to go, but seeing as how Maxtor has had ATA133 drives on the market now for about a year and a half, with time to get the bugs out of the drives, and Samsung is just breaking into it with ATA133, I'd go with the Maxtor ATA133 with the 8Mb cache.

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[svol]

It does not make a single difference... even with the enlarged cache the drive will never hit 100 MB/s at all, let alone 133 MB/s.

Even more interesting: UDMA133 isn't an official standard.

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[FDTzeng]

Okay well whatever the case may be, I got he WD already =)

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