A little bit of logic: ATA-33 drives max out at 33MB/s, average between 10-20MB/s internal depending on the quality of the drive and the surrounding hardware. ATA-66 drives max out at 66MB/s, average between 15-40 depending on the quality of the drive and the surrounding hardware. ATA-100 drives max out at 100MB/s, average between 20-60 depending on the quality of the drive and the surrounding hardware. These figures are estimates and may differ more greatly depending on your system, but on the whole, there is a definite increase in performance between the three types. Also, these figures are for internal data transfers, in terms of overall system performance, other factors to consider are bus speed, RAM speed/amount/quality, and processor speed, all of which play a part in how well your system performs. In talking about hardware, you have to remember that the same exact piece of hardware might perform drastically differently in two different systems based on how the other hardware in the systems perform. Case and point: when I switched out my PIII 450 for a friends PIII 500, in passmark performance test my disk score went up by 6\% (this was not nearly as noticable as the 50\% performance jump from when I enabled DMA on the drive).The point is that making generalizations based on the results of one or two tests about the validity of a new technology is rather erronious. And with the Promise 66 hack, i'll still have a fast enough drive(s) to keep me satisfied for a while.
Also, FYI Avalanche, the hack for the ultra=>fasttrak 100 is slightly different from the the hack for the ultra=>fasttrak 66. I have seen it somewhere, but I don't recall the url now, and since I don't have a 100, i didn't see the need to save it.
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