This may seem like a dumb question...

[karak]

If I was to purchase a mother board that only has ATA 100 up to 2 devices would that be compatible with my harddrive that says it is a ATA/133?

I doubt it would be.. but I just want to make sure.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127216
This the kind of motherboard I would like to get.


Thanks.

[MobilePCPhysician]

Yes, they would work at the slower speed.

[karak]

Now does ATA work with SATA? Like that motherboard I just posted has SATA... would my ATA/133 plug into that and be faster or..?

[MobilePCPhysician]

Is your hard drive a sata drive or ata drive? If you are not sure,post the make and model.

[karak]

Well it says Ultra ATA/133 Maxtor 200GB

[MobilePCPhysician]

You could always buy a pci sata controller. Or just buy a sata drive and use the other drive for storage.

[TechZ]

Ultra ATA/133 Maxtor 200GB

That means the drive is a normal (P)ATA drive with a maximum speed of 133mb/s.

SATA1 is 150mb/s.

ABIT AL8-V ATX Intel Motherboard
Storage Devices
PATA 1 x ATA 100 up to 2 Devices
SATA 4 x SATA II

As you can see the board you choose, can do PATA, so its not a problem using your chosen hard disk.

Also SATA is much faster, so if you havent purchased that hard disk yet, check to see a SATA version of it, the price difference is negligible or even cheaper in the case of SATA vs PATA Hard Disks. Newegg.com shows just a US2$ difference between SATA & a similar (but slower) PATA HardDisk.