Maveric169
The Voices Talk to Me
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Well I guess you learn something new everyday. For about ohhh the last 3 months I have trying to figurare out why I could not get my primary HDD to go into UDMA mode 6. I just assumed that the WD 80GB drive just didn't have the technology supported when it was made as it was about 3 years old.
Well after my recent HDD failure I bought a new WD 160GB HDD w/8MB Cache and figurared that this newer drive would definatly support UDMA mode 6. But yet again, no matter what I tried I could not get the drive into UDMA 6. So back to the manufacture, after crawling through their site for about an hour I came across a startling revelation!
Well after my recent HDD failure I bought a new WD 160GB HDD w/8MB Cache and figurared that this newer drive would definatly support UDMA mode 6. But yet again, no matter what I tried I could not get the drive into UDMA 6. So back to the manufacture, after crawling through their site for about an hour I came across a startling revelation!
And so dies my quest to get my primary drive into UDMA mode 6!:cry:Western Digital currently only manufacturers ATA/100 drives. We have chosen to focus on our 7200-RPM drive family utilizing the ATA/100 bus. Since the ATA/133 burst rate is only one of the factors involved, alone it is not an accurate gauge of drive performance. All other things being equal (RPM, cache size, areal density, etc.), an ATA/100 drive will perform as well, under real world conditions, as an ATA/133 drive.