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Re: Mixing ATA-33 and ATA-100 drives on single device
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:10:17 GMT
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Selçuk Göre <ssgore@superonline.com> writes:

I don't know what are the specific differences between original
EIDE and newer ATA33/66/100 versions of it but I think the same
limitation may still be exist.

In that case, it is a serious speed penalty...


Besides, having an extra cable inside your box is almost non issue
from the cooling point of view. At least, most computers today have
4-5 fans inside (one in power supply, on connected to case, one or
two on the CPU, and one on display adapter) and I'm sure you have
at least 3 of them.

I only have two fans: One on the CPU and one in the power supply unit.

The new drive runs very hot compared with the old one, so I think I'm
going to shuffle them a bit.  Placing the new one on the bottom next to
the air intake should probably help a bit.

It's not like the heat from the new drive raises the temperature in
the box much, as measured by the motherboard.  But the drive chassis
gets too hot to touch, so I suppose some more cooling is healthy.

Fredrik



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  Re: Mixing ATA-33 and ATA-100 drives on single device
 
(...) There was a restriction when EIDE first introduced. When you connect two IDE drives (one slow, one fast) to the same cable, both drives transfer data at the same rate, which is the slower one. So techies always suggested that connecting fast (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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