ATA100 vs ATA133 Hard Drive?

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Looking to buy a hard drive for Audio recording PC using ACID 4.0
and Cakewalk. Need a large hard drive say 160 or 200Gig. Is there a giant difference between the speeds of ATA100 & ATA133
bus speads when it come to recording and playback of Digital audio files? And yes my new motherboard does support ATA100/133 bus speeds.

Thanks James
 
There is no big noticable difference, but the 8mb cache makes huge difference for sure.
 
i do not work for newegg, but, they are one of if not the top resellers on line, they sell an 7200rpm, 80gig, 8mb cache, w/d jb series HHD for arounf $73 with 3 yesr warranty and free shipping, they may offer the larger series at the same savings, but i'm not sure on that one, i use a # of the 80g drives and they've run well for me...
 
I just bought a Seagate 160 gigabyte 7200 rpm 8mb cache hard drive from newegg for $134 i thought that was a good price, I love newegg there service rules.
 
outpost.com

If you can pay more upfront, outpost.com is the way to go. With rebates (yes, you have to fill in some forms and send them in, then wai a few weeks for your rebate), you can get a WD 120/8MB cache for 69.99, and a WD 160/8MB cache for $89.99. Full retail boxes too! If you want ATA 133, they have the Maxtor 120/8MB for 99.99 with rebates.
 
"WD 120/8MB cache for 69.99, and a WD 160/8MB cache for $89.99. Full retail boxes too!"

You should be careful with purchasing WD's retail-boxed HD's these days, as they have reduced the warranty on them to one year even for the JB's (previously all JB's got 3-year). Always buy an OEM drive, as you'll continue to get 3-year warranties.

FWIW, NewEgg has the WD1200JB on sale for $99 until 4:00pm today.
 
Buy the retail drive for $70, extend the warranty to 3 years for 14.95 (you can do it on WD's site), and you still save $15 over newegg... if the warranty is important to you. I've never had a drive fail within the warranty period personally, and by the time they do fail, they're relics anyway (just had a 16 GB drive fail a month ago, no one even makes drives that miniscule anymore).
 
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