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IDE Cables

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EhJayKim

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What is the difference between the 80 and the 40 IDE cables? Is there a difference in speed?
Just wondering cuz switching from a 40 to an 80 somehow allowed me to install hl2, well thatm ight have been it I did about 3 things, but yeah, what is the difference? Thanks,

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The 40 and the 80 refers to the number of wires and pins in the cable. 40-pin IDE is the older kind and was used on the older ATA-33 and ATA-66 devices such as most CD-ROM drives and old hard drives. 80-pin IDE is the current IDE cable which is used on ATA-100 and ATA-133 hard drives and other IDE devices. It is very possible that the bottleneck of the cable kept you from installing HL2.
 
dag49 said:
The 40 and the 80 refers to the number of wires and pins in the cable. 40-pin IDE is the older kind and was used on the older ATA-33 and ATA-66 devices such as most CD-ROM drives and old hard drives. 80-pin IDE is the current IDE cable which is used on ATA-100 and ATA-133 hard drives and other IDE devices. It is very possible that the bottleneck of the cable kept you from installing HL2.
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are you sure you can run ATA-66 with 40...? cause as far as I'm concerned you need 80 pin cable for that...
 
dag49 said:
The 40 and the 80 refers to the number of wires and pins in the cable. 40-pin IDE is the older kind and was used on the older ATA-33 and ATA-66 devices such as most CD-ROM drives and old hard drives. 80-pin IDE is the current IDE cable which is used on ATA-100 and ATA-133 hard drives and other IDE devices. It is very possible that the bottleneck of the cable kept you from installing HL2.
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It refers to the number of wires, not pins. They are both 40 pin but the later has 80 wires which offers additional grounding(shielding).
 
TheMostWantedPolishTwin said:
are you sure you can run ATA-66 with 40...? cause as far as I'm concerned you need 80 pin cable for that...
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I'm with you on that. I thought ATA-66 + had to use 80 pin cables.
 
I knew why they were 40 and 80, I just wondered if there was a difference in speed, or if one was a superior cable, it seems that the 80 is the superior cable, correct?
 
The 80 pins reduce the "crosstalk" (and some more junk) allowing for the ata-66 and above.

Will it make your cdrom's faster/more reliable? No. With the thinner guage wires, I've had 80 pin cables go "bad" on me (user error, I'm sure) but I can fold, bend, mutilate, maul those 40 pin cables without a hitch. I'll just use 40 pin cables for opticals and 80 pin for HDD's
 
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