About to scrap hpt366
The performance of the Hpt366 with Xp is half of onboard ATA33,s.
The speed of the hpt366 is pathetic with my Maxtor 80gb Ata133 drive.
Even a 2.5 year old 20gb 7200 quantum is restricted on the Hpt366 controller.
Try doing a Ghost from disk to disk on on the hpt366, it also gets about half of the megabytes/min than the onboard ATA33.
I have tried different bios's, drivers, Udma settings, cables and drives.
I have come to the conclusion that the hpt366 is only suited to old 5400 rpm drives.
The speed of the hpt366 is pathetic with my Maxtor 80gb Ata133 drive.
Even a 2.5 year old 20gb 7200 quantum is restricted on the Hpt366 controller.
Try doing a Ghost from disk to disk on on the hpt366, it also gets about half of the megabytes/min than the onboard ATA33.
I have tried different bios's, drivers, Udma settings, cables and drives.
I have come to the conclusion that the hpt366 is only suited to old 5400 rpm drives.
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To all you guys who still run read/write drives on the HPT366 and feel safe ---I once met a guy in New Mexico who found a rattlesnake & decided he could make it into a pet. He claimed it was safe and by not having any fear he could handle it & not be bitten. He seemed to be right for the first day anyway. I few days later I heard he was in the hospital from a severe rattlesnake bite. The HPT366 is a rattlesnake.
i had used the hpt366 controller for 3 years in NT 4.0, win2k, XP and linux. never had a problem but some of the stories here put the fear in me. i just new that one day i'd wake up and that report i needed to print would be corrupt on the disc. i'm currently using a silicon image product but i'm going to replace it with a maxtor (promise) card.