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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."
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Well, last night I saw the new Star Wars film, and believe you me, it rocks!
Let me explain.
A buddy of mine works at a digital theatre. He's often come through for me before, burning
me divx copies of the newest releases, etc. Anyhow, last night he calls up and asks if I
was busy, and if not, did I want to see AoTC. I figured he downloaded on of the pirate copies
and jury-rigged it up to the digital projector, and declined his offer, since I thought TPM
was one of the worst movies ever (let's face it, "Dude Where's My Car" had a better storyline).
He claimed it was the real thing though, and that DreamWorks SKG had screwed up and sent out some
copies early. Furthermore, there would be half a dozen geek chicks that he would need some help with.
MY gf was out of town for the night, and I had just started recompiling the linux kernel (with Gunther Lutefisk's XFree86 kernel integration patch (so the framebuffer can run in ring 0 without the overhead of shared memory)), which would take all night, so I figured why not.
Boy am I glad I did. George Lucas seems to have listened to the complaints from TPM. The visual effects are stunning, but this time there's a story to tell as well. Jar-Jar is no longer so annoying, and the crass commercialization is largely absent (ie - Senator/Princess Amadalia no longer drinks Pepsi). The timeless elements of forbidden love, teen angst, and alienation make for a moving story.
I suggest you watch it as soon as you can.
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!!!
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.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.