Hard Drive Performance - ATA100 vs ATA133

Tweaker writes "A short visual guide to the performance advantages of ATA133 over ATA100. Synthetic and real-world benchmarks are also included."

Comments

Re:Best way to increase hard drive performance:

[Jburkholder]

Heh, give your harddrive the riceboy treatment, eh?

I vote for fog lights, VTEC emblems and 4 inch exhaust tip. That should really boost performance!!!

Re:Bottleneck must be elsewhere

[IPFreely]

The only real advantage of ATA133 is to support drives >120GB.

Yes, that is the real advantage, and probably the reason that ATA133 will eventually become the standard for all drives/controllers. through the years, increasing capacity has always been a driving force behind changing standards. Increaced speed only matters if it is measurable.

Of course, the funny thing is that the only 160GB drive available right now is a mere 5400 RPM (with a lovely 35.9 MB/s at outer diameter).

Just because the only available drive is no good doesn't mean the standard is worthless. If you need the capacity, then ATA133 is worth it at any. Large drives are on the way, and the first step is the interface. If we weren't willing to change standards for larger drives, then we'd all have farms of hundreds of 120MB drives right now. It's worth it to change the standard to allow capacity even if there is not an immediate benefit of speed.

Apparantly it's working though, since some people actually think it matters.

Yes, we do.