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Maxtor's ATA-133 Does 160GB

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the 160-scoops-of-yum dept.

B. Galliart writes "ExtremeTech has an article about Maxtor's two new bleeding edge ATA-133 drive models coming out later this month. The most interesting of these is the 160 Gigabyte DiamondMax Plus D540X (priced around $400) which uses Maxtor's purposed "BigDrive" 48-bit address space instead of the common E/IDE 28-bit address space thus getting pass the 137GB barrier. The drive should be useable on existing computers due to a bundled Promise Technologies ATA-133 PCI card."

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  1. I didn't know by samael · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I didn't know that there was a problem with drives over 137GB in IDE. Is there an extension planned? Or are we doomed to proprietary extensions from here on out?

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    1. Re:I didn't know by jtdubs · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I would assume that once we make the move to Serial ATA, if that ever happens, it would be as simple as upping the clocking on the serial line to add more bits to the address space and hence maximum addressable size.

      So, once that happens I would expect a clocking standard that would give us more than the 28 bits of addressing we have now.

      Justin Dubs

  2. Re:Of course we need news like this by Syberghost · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If we want to hear more about the terrorism we can go to cnn.com

    Unless you want what you hear to be accurate.

    They spent an hour yesterday reporting a "CNN Exclusive: the US Bombs Afghanistan". It was an exclusive, all right; exclusively in CNN's heads. Afghanistan was bombing Afghanistan, like they do approximately daily.

    They were reporting the Camp David attack that didn't happen, the George Washington Bridge bombing that didn't happen, the State Department carbomb, etc. etc.