From: Mike '/m' 


I agree.

btw, I just purchased two of the Maxtor 160GB (8MB cache) drives and a
3Ware 7500-4 IDE RAID controller for my media server.

  /m

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:00:36 -0600, "Randy H"
 wrote:

>You'd still be hard-pressed to saturate the bus as it is.
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:tasq4v8a3vj1v6nvurpqckfqhjkdbedagv{at}4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:54:27 -0600, "Randy H"
>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >...IMO, ATA133 will only make a difference if you get the WD drives with
>the
>> > 8MB caches-otherwise, it's a wash. You'll be damn lucky to saturate the
>> > ATA66 bus....
>>
>>
>> Don't the WD 8MB cache drives have the ATA100 interface?
>>
>> The Maxtor 8MB cache drives have the ATA133 interface.
>>
>>
>>  /m
>>
>
>

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