Re: [OT] IDE

["Alancc" <alan.cc@xxxxxxx>]

So the UIDE drives would be OK with the Highpoint RocketRAID 404
controller.

Alancc
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:20 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] IDE


>
> > Looking at some drives for me terabytes.
> > I would like to use 5400 drives to cut down noise and heat, the
> > ones I am looking at are UIDE rather than ATA/133, what's the
> > difference and can I use them.
>
> I use 5400rpm drives for exactly that reason - anyway why would you
need
the
> higher data rate of 7200rpm drives when the maximum you can get across
a
> network is 100mbits/sec (10 mbytes ish)? ;-) I get 24Mbytes/sec off my
> Firewire drives (5400rpm 160Gb Maxtors) and about 50Mbytes/sec off the
RAID
> array (8 x 160Gb Maxtors).
>
> If you are looking at drives bigger than 137Gb then they must be
supporting
> ATA133 (or at least the ATA133 extended addressing) to access the
space
> above 137Gb ...
>
> ... basically as long as the controller is specced to handle drives
>137Gb
> then you can pretty much use any drive with them (and please no one
say
"You
> can't use Serial ATA or SCSI with an IDE controller - I'm assuming
that we
> understand that).
>
> Phil