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Bridging the Gap to the Future: ATA/133 Standard
By C. Rogers, 10.01

While not taken fully advantage of presently, ATA/100 is the current standard for data transfer in IDE hard drives. The given name of ATA/100 implies that data can be transferred up to 100 MB/sec., real world results only see this standard bursting up to 45 MB/sec. in major benchmarking.

However, hard drive performance is likely to improve with the recently-announced ATA/133 standard. This new format implies data transfer rates of up to 133 MB/sec., which is the physical limit of data transfer allowed by the elusive PCI bus. While an end-user cannot expect to have hard drives running at this rate, ATA/133 it will improve performance somewhat.

Via Technologies has been pushing this standard for their upcoming motherboards, and Maxtor sets to be one of the first drive manufacturers to support ATA/133.

For those who do not have ATA/133 connectors on their motherboard, there is no need to worry. ATA/133 is still compatible with older standards, such as ATA/100, and ATA/66. For future applications, ATA/133 could be well taken advantage of in bulky applications. When an application calls for more and more data, this standard will definitely come into play.

ATA/133 may not be along for too long, as serial ATA will become the next de-facto standard in hard drive manufacturing. Serial ATA will be covered on CALROG.COM when it becomes closer to release, but in the meantime, ATA/133 drives will suffice for most end users.

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