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will ATA133 hard disk run on mobo with only ata100 support?

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/will-ata133-hard-disk-run-on-mobo-with-only-ata100-support.25574/

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voops2k5 Original post #1
Mar 17, 2006 at 7:16 AM
Hi all,

I am planning to buy a maxtor 80GB ata133 hdd. My pc's mobo supports ata100 as per the manual. Will this hdd still work fine with the mobo?
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ashnik #2
Mar 18, 2006 at 8:47 PM
ofcourse it will, but as u know, lesser performance.
BTW why not seagate barracuda? plz elaborate.
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voops2k5 #3
Mar 22, 2006 at 6:09 PM
Need For Speeeed>>> :lol:

Anyway forget it. You are right abt what you stated. Guess what, I did not buy Maxtor HDD after all, i took seagate. Since i am not going to get any benefit out of maxtor anyway.

BTW is it true that seagate accquired maxtor on dec 2005. :roll: