Captain Ned wrote:I'll take IDE signal integrity over illusory temperature reductions any day.
Interesting. A battle of yet baseless assertions. Choose your lie--but maybe I'm completely out of touch.
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I'll choose reductions in temperature over illusionary gains in signal integrity any day.
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These forums are so interesting. The things people choose to believe... Or want to believe.
FWIW, I actually did have trouble once with DMA being enabled on a round cable I made with one particular hard drive (IBM 20GB 34GXP).
Also, I really have no choice but to use round cables in my SFF case. I simply couldn't fit flat cables without *really* blocking airflow (say, blocking 1/3 of the single main case fan).