Noise, you mean the electronic kind?  I donīt think so.  I saw these at
CompUSA.  These cables allow for better air circulation and they look cool.
They come on many colors, you can even outfit your box with a black light
and glass window to show it off.  I would think that unless you have a AMD
processor or older SCSI drives, this kind of setup is of no use except eye
candy.  I have a client who has 4 IDE drives with seperate fans on each in a
mini tower, his tech carefully took each IDE cable and cut and wrapped each
one with black electrical tape.  He has a AMD set up on a Asus board with no
problems at all with heat.  I believe all cables come today with 40 pins and
80 wires to support UDMA 66/100/133, so the cable count is normal.  I really
like the new SATA drives, the cables are smaller to allow better air
circulation too, you will probably see these coming out in color too soon as
this will be the new standard for hard drive usage.
Howard Rubin
Fortaleza, Brazil

Re:  Date:    Tue, 7 Jan 2003 00:23:30 -0500
From:    "R.Torres" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: round IDE cables

Hello Everyone,

I have a question about round IDE cables.  ATA 100/133 have an extra 40
wires in the cables to reduce noise. Does rolling up these cables defeat the
purpose of the noise reducing extra wires ??? Has someone actually tested
these round cables??

TIA

Rick Torres

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