Companies have been manufacturing Ultra ATA/66 hard drives for quite some time now. Currently, the majority of the mainboards in most people's computers don't support this feature. Built in ATA/66 support was a highly anticipated feature included only in the next-gen motherboards. This all changed when companies started making add-in cards that enabled the hard drive to take advantage of ATA/66 without having to buy a new motherboard. Since ATA/66 is the future, we wanted to see if it really does make a difference in performance. To find out if ATA/66 is more than just hype Leadtek has sent us their WinFast ATA/66 card for evaluation. This card is especially great for people who have motherboards that don't support ata/66 and hard disk drives that do. One major selling point for this card that leadtek is pushing is that the card supposedly has zero hardware conflict.

Specifications

CMD 648 Ultra ATA/66 Chip controller
4 Supppoted IDE type IDE PIO, DMA, Multi-Word DMA, Ultra DMA 33, Ultra DMA 66 IDE Bus Transfer
Sync: 66MB/sec (with Ultra ATA/66 devices)
Data Transfer 133MB/sec (at 33MHz, 32-bit PCI) Deep DMA FIFO
PCI Integration PCI 32-bit DMA bus master support Connectors
Two Ultra ATA/66 Internal Connectors

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