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yoyoman · May 28, 2003, 02:19 PM

who makes ata 133 hard drives.

Just wondering.

solitere · May 28, 2003, 02:32 PM

Originally posted by yoyoman:
who makes ata 133 hard drives.

Maxtor, Western Digital....and others but not Seagate!

CIA · May 28, 2003, 02:39 PM

More or less every major HD vendor.

yoyoman · May 28, 2003, 03:59 PM

Originally posted by CIA:
More or less every major HD vendor.

Links.

Witch one is a good one. I like westerndigital with the 8mb cache on there ata 100

bradoesch · May 28, 2003, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by yoyoman:
Links.

Witch one is a good one. I like westerndigital with the 8mb cache on there ata 100

The WD SE drives are nice, but you may run into some problems.
I bought a Western Digital 120 GB SE drive for my iMac DV. It will sleep fine running 9.2.2, but when I try and put it to sleep under 10.2.5, the rest of the machine sleeps while the new hard drives sounds like it's spinning up and spinning down, again and again.
Since it works in 9 and not X, I'm thinking it's not really a hardware issue and a problem with OS X instead. Western Digital responded saying it was an issue with OS X and that the drive is fine.

I've listed 5 sources of people who have complains/problems with the Western Digital SE drives and their Macs. It's the last post of
this thread.

Brad

CIA · May 28, 2003, 07:27 PM

I have 2 120 GB Western Digital SE drives, in a RAID (PCI CARD) on OSX.2.6.

They have run fine since I got them 6 months ago....

yoyoman · May 28, 2003, 10:27 PM

Originally posted by CIA:
I have 2 120 GB Western Digital SE drives, in a RAID (PCI CARD) on OSX.2.6.

They have run fine since I got them 6 months ago....

but the western oare ata 100 do they have ata 133 SE drives with8mb cache

tooki · May 29, 2003, 01:22 AM

I prefer Maxtor, Seagate and IBM/HGST drives -- WD does not have a long track record of reliability.

ATA100 vs ATA133 is a moot point -- no ATA drive (even the very fastest ones) is capable of even saturating an ATA66 bus, much less an ATA100 or ATA133 bus.

tooki

CIA · May 29, 2003, 06:48 PM

Why don't we see 10K RPM ATA Drives? They make 15K SCSI drives....

tooki · May 29, 2003, 08:17 PM

Probably cuz they would cost money.

I for one am getting mad that cost pressure has pushed hard drive prices so low that quality has sunk to unacceptable levels.

I'd rather see more modestly sized drives out there, with proper warranties, than to be able to buy exorbitantly huge drives which will crash and burn, taking your exorbitantly huge amount of data with them. </rant>

tooki

JB72 · May 30, 2003, 03:00 AM

Originally posted by CIA:
Why don't we see 10K RPM ATA Drives? They make 15K SCSI drives....

Serial ATA 10k drives are available now.

yoyoman · May 30, 2003, 12:08 PM

Originally posted by JB72:
Serial ATA 10k drives are available now.

Who makes it. Do they have external cases for fw400/800. I now maxtor has them 2.

JB72 · May 30, 2003, 12:55 PM

Originally posted by yoyoman:
Who makes it. Do they have external cases for fw400/800. I now maxtor has them 2.

I think Maxtor makes some. I saw some on the front page of www.newegg.com .

yoyoman · May 30, 2003, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by JB72:
I think Maxtor makes some. I saw some on the front page of www.newegg.com .

and do they have a 8mb cache as well as a case for them. fw400/800

JB72 · May 30, 2003, 02:22 PM

Originally posted by yoyoman:
and do they have a 8mb cache as well as a case for them. fw400/800

I really don't know too much about them. They're still limited to smaller sizes, and they generally, if not exclusively have an 8mb cache.

I'm only aware of them being available in serial ata. Which would mean that they would require a serial ata to ata133 converter "thingy" to work in currently available firewire enclosures, and I'm not sure if that would work.

Having recently broke loose of SCSI, I'm eager about these 10k ide drives, but I'm waiting to till they are more common before I consider a purchase.