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Started by sharront
Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:50
Pardon my ignorance
Author: sharront
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:50
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:50
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I was just wondering what Ultra ATA meant and is it the best thing for standard HDDs?
Re: Pardon my ignorance
Author: JD
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:56
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:56
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Yikes read previous thread above UMDA vs ATA post "sharront" <sharront@attcanada.ca> wrote in message news:GCVo6.4772$TW.23980@tor-nn1.netcom.ca... > I was just wondering what Ultra ATA meant and is it the best thing for standard > HDDs? > >
Re: Pardon my ignorance
Author: Soujurn
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:13
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:13
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ATA stands for AT Attachment.... Basically, it is short hand for the specifications used with Hard Drives. The latest is ATA-6 or Ultra ATA-100 meaning the transfer rate is 100Mbps. If you mean standard to be a IDE hard drive, yes, Ultra ATA-100 is the best... BTW, never apologize or beg anyones pardon, for wanting to know what something means. :-) "sharront" <sharront@attcanada.ca> wrote in message news:GCVo6.4772$TW.23980@tor-nn1.netcom.ca... > I was just wondering what Ultra ATA meant and is it the best thing for standard > HDDs? > >
Re: Pardon my ignorance
Author: Ian Stirling
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:06
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:06
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Soujurn <Soujurn@hotmail.com> wrote: >ATA stands for AT Attachment.... Basically, it is short hand for the >specifications used with Hard Drives. >The latest is ATA-6 or Ultra ATA-100 meaning the transfer rate is >100Mbps. >If you mean standard to be a IDE hard drive, yes, Ultra ATA-100 is the >best... But only by a very, very small margin. Oh, and Mb= Megabits, MB= megabytes. The ATA-100 only means that data comes off the internal drive cache to the computer, at 100MB/second. But, unless you have a cache of under a couple of meg, the only improvement will be very slight. The key performance rating for disk drives is sustained transfer rate. Seek times are also very important, but in general nowadays are totally overwhelmed by rotational larency. -- http://inquisitor.i.am/ | mailto:inquisitor@i.am | Ian Stirling. ---------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------- "An enemy will usually have three courses open to him. Of these he will select the fourth." -- Helmuth von Moltke
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