What is the ideal setup for Hard drives and CD-Roms on IDE Controllers. I usually put my Ultra 100 hard drive on one IDE controller with a 80 pin cable and the CD-Rom on the second IDE with a 40 pin ...
Just wondering... I know that the on-board hard drive controllers by nature use some CPU cycles, but I want to know if add-in controller cards do, too? Are they like putting in a video card, which ...
The IDE JBOD (just a bunch of disks)/RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) PCIe (PCI Express) controller adds an extra channel, RAID capability, and JBOD capability to any desktop system, and ...
The old or the new, it doesn't matter with the VT6421 controller. Its pair of 150-Mbit/s Serial ATA (SATA) manages new SATA drives, and its parallel ATA-133 interfaces support a pair of ...
(1) The controlling electronics built into an IDE drive. See IDE. (2) The adapter on the plug-in card or motherboard that connects to the IDE controller. This is technically the IDE host adapter, but ...
Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA ...