Q: How does HDs connected to an ATA card to compare it directly conected to a mobo?
Right now I have an ATA card connected to one of my HDs and two other hard drives connected to the IDE of the mobo. I was wondering if there is any impact on CPU performance, or HD speed comparison between an ATA card and IDE on the mobo.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
well wouldnt it be slower because it has to go through the slower pci bus first????
Please show me a hard drive that can sustain speeds in excess of 133Mb/sec.
Re:If it's an older mobo then the IDE interface that the hard drives are connected to might be slower than the PCI bus.
Re:well wouldnt it be slower because it has to go through the slower pci bus first????
Re:If the ATA PCI card supports a faster version of ATA than the mobo then theoretically there will be an improvement in performance. For example if the card supports ATA100 while the mobo only supports ATA33 then the card should be able to transfer data faster. That's assuming the hard drives are capable of transferring data faster than ATA33.
Re:Shouldn't have any difference just a used pci slot.
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