IDE HDD with a 8MB buffer and 150MB/sec Data transfer?

[Grant_H]

I couple of months ago when I firsted started looking for a new HDD I thought I came across one that was IDE/ATA with a 8 MB buffer and had a data transfer rate of 150MB/sec and the best part it was under $80.00. Now that I want to buy that HDD I can't seem to find any drive with those specs anywere I've looked.

I was just wondering if anyone knew were I could find a drive like this without having to convert to SATA.

[Piccoro]

SATA drives are 150mb/sec
IDE drives are 133mb/sec
The drive you looked at (if it was 150mb/sec) was a SATA drive.

I have seen a SATA drive that included a SATA PCI expansion card.
I would look for one that included the PCI expantion card if your motherboard does not support SATA and you want 150mb/sec.
Otherwise you could buy an expansion card.

[Jester700]

Remember that those are the speeds of the INTERFACE. No drive will really transfer data that fast. Well, not yet, anyway. In fact, SUSTAINED transfers haven't even topped 66MB/s yet. They range from about 60MB/s (at disc start) to about half that (at disk end).

Transfers from the cache are faster, of course, and the 10k RPM WD raptor SATA is slightly faster (but not by much).

[Grant_H]

Remember that those are the speeds of the INTERFACE. No drive will really transfer data that fast. Well, not yet, anyway. In fact, SUSTAINED transfers haven't even topped 66MB/s yet. They range from about 60MB/s (at disc start) to about half that (at disk end).

Transfers from the cache are faster, of course, and the 10k RPM WD raptor SATA is slightly faster (but not by much).

So basicly your saying that an SATA drive at 150MB/sec isn't going to be much if any faster than an ATA 133.
If that is the case it doesn't really make sence for me to spend the extra $$$ for an SATA adapter an drive!