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ATA133 Controllers Have Arrived
Spot writes "If you're a hardware junkie, then you may already know ATA133 is on it's way to becoming the new standard for drive controllers. LittleWhiteDog has a very detailed look into the Promise Ultra133 TX2 Controller and Maxtor's D740X-6L ATA133 interface drive. " And I just bought a few 100g drives :) I still find it funny that every couple years I buy new hard drives always for around $200... 120 megs, 800 megs, 2.5G, 12G, 30G, 100G. I love this.
http://saveie6.com/
*sigh*
and I've had my new ATA100 60GB hard drive for a week and a half.....
I'm horrified at how IDE has flourished. It's the worst possible standard for a drive interface.
:)
If you ever wrote FDC drivers, you'd know that's not true.
And I just bought a few 100g drives
Maybe they will give consumers a bulk discount when buying by the kilo.
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Maxtor's press release from Oct.29 is here, and contains this piece of info:
:)
Ultra133 TX2 increases data transfer rates between a hard disk drive and a personal computer up to 33 percent compared with Ultra ATA/100 controllers [...]
Duh. I suppose maxtor's 160Gb drive increases hard drive capacity with... well... up to 60% compared to 100Gb hard drives also.
Imagine a RAID of those :)
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I always get a kick out of people replacing their Ultra 66 controller with an Ultra 100.
Dude! Shut the hell up! We want them to rush out and buy the latest stuff so prices come down. What is wrong with you? Apply the logick and we'll all be paying less on a regular basis. Teach the man to fish and we'll all be screwed. Disinformation for everyone!
Todays huge harddisks don't make me store more pr0n on them. They let me store the same amount of pr0n but in much better quality! :)
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- 800,000 hours mean time between failure (MTBF) in the field
- 3 Year Limited Warranty
units 800000hours years* 91.263642
If their drives have a 91 year mean time to faulure, it would be pretty cheap for them to give a 5 year warranty rather than a 3 year warranty. Even if their MTBF was off by an order of magnitude , a 5 year warranty wouldn't be that bad.
I think it's time for someone to compile some failure stats on these things.
(anecdote)
Back in the early '80s when oil sands development was starting in Northern Alberta, a friend of mine was working at the site. It was mid-winter, and starting to get pretty cold... -35C (~-30F)
-30 is cold on any scale, but the equipment that they were using was rated doen wo -40. Now in the States, +40C ~ -40C is often referred to as "Mil Spec". In Northern Alberta it's referred to as "outdoor equipment".
-35C, and this equipment freezes. My friend Dan calls the manufacturer of this stuff and he complains about it. The engineer led off with one question that told Dan all he needed to know.
With a Texan drawl he asked, incredulously: "You mean it actually gets that cold?"
I'm wondering if Maxtor's 800K Hour MTBF is kinda like that Texan Mil Spec rating.
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