foxman98 0 Posted December 23, 1999 This question is three fold. I currently have a 13 gig ata66 drive sitting in my box. However, the motherboard does *not* support the protocol, leaving the drive at 33. I am looking to buy one of those nifty PCI cards allowing another four ide channels as well as Ultra ATA66. My questions are as follows: Can one boot off an ultra ata 66 pci card? Are there compatible w/ win2k. Will I notice any speed difference? According to the box I saw, it claimed better performance than SCSI. While I assume that is marketing does anyone have any hints? Is it worth the ?? And what brand would one recomend to work w/ win2k. I saw a "Digital research"(I think) and it listen 95/98/nt for os support.... thanks for your time. Cheers, Steve [This message has been edited by foxman98 (edited 23 December 1999).] Share this post Link to post
Steve Rumble 0 Posted December 26, 1999 Yes, you should be able to boot off of the ata66 drive. The controller is basically functioning like a scsi device, can you boot off scsi drives? As for win2k support.. it varies. Highpoint Technologie's card works fine for win2k. (card sold by abit, integral hpt support is in the bp6). Is there a performance benefit? Not that I could really tell. Most drives won't get near 33mb/sec. The fastest drives sustain only around 20 megs per second I believe. Check some benchmarks on the web. It's really not all that worth it for speed in my opinion. Share this post Link to post
