After installing a new 120Gb Seadate Barracuda IDE drive i thought i would order a new ATA133 IDE cable (round of course) just to complete it. I installed it and it looked abit differnt, more wires, i had inadvertantly ordered an 40 conductor - 80 wire IDE cable. And my god does it boot fast, literally less than 20 seconds, the main hold up is the BIOS doing its checks (like Updating DMI config and all that crap, Mem Testing and the like), the Win XP bar scrolls across about 4 times and buingo windows logon screen.
This might just be coincidance (SP?) and might just be that windowshas sorted its system files out or something so it loads 10 times faster, i dont know but after i put that new cable in it boots bloody fast.
Faster than when i had just the one drive in there. Not quite sure why i posted this either, just to spark some healthy deate i suppose, feel tfree to comment.
dragon2039
ever since i switched my first hd to 80wire, i never went back
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But silly ebuyer doesnt advertise tham as any differnt, not even in specifications, or description, its just a plain old ATA133 IDE cable, nothinhg special about it. They could charge a buit more for those cbles if they were on the ball......
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how much did you pay for one of those? and whats the length?
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interisting, could you give me a link? (UK)
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Originally Posted by geoff5093
how much did you pay for one of those? and whats the length?
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It was £1.20 (£1.41 inc VAT), which is just over $3 USD if im not mistaken.... and its 60cm, a bit long but 5 mins with a few cable ties and you cant see it at all, so.....
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Originally Posted by harry18
interisting, could you give me a link? (UK)
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Yup, its from ebuyer UK so its all in GBP, http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=36347 If you look in the reviews, just one person mentions it being an 80 wire cable....
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Computers are limited to ATA66(or was it 33, I'll have to double check) when using only 40pin. So yes, you should notice quite a difference.
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Computers are limited to ATA66(or was it 33, I'll have to double check) when using only 40pin. So yes, you should notice quite a difference.
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Yah, well, technically it's still 40 pin, just 80 wire... If it was 80 pin then you would need some kind of strange adapter for all you HDD's. And i think someone on here said that the extra wires are only there for crosstalk, therefore theoretically opening up the remiang 40 wires for pure data transfer.
dragon2309
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and cable select actually works with 80 wire!
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