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Hitachi's SATA-II Drive Tested

Posted by timothy on from the vroom-vroom-the-middle-of-the-pack dept.

Ghost Rider writes "They didn't make much noise about it, but Hardcoreware.net have what looks to be one of first reviews of a SATA-II drive. They Compared the T7K250 from Hitachi to the latest drives from other manufacturers, including Seagate, Maxtor, and Western Digital's Raptor. They performed the tests on the SATA-II capable PDC20579 controller from Promise. It ended up in the middle of the pack in this review, so I'm not sure how much a difference SATA-II is going to make."

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  1. Uuh by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 5, Informative

    THERE IS NO SATA II.

    There is a new 3GB/s speed, and there is also NCQ, but there is no "SATA II" specification.

    Read for yourself:

    http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp

    As for the new 3GB/s speed and NCQ, Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 and Seagate's 7200.8 both support it.

  2. The great thing about SATA2 by Xenkar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Over two years ago, I read up on SATA2 interface. The thing I really liked about it is the possibility of SATA2 optical drives. A SATA2 DVD+-RW drive would enable us to ditch PATA connectors completely.

    I can't wait until the computer industry finally implements this stuff. I wanted this technology in 2003 when I built my latest computer. I am disappointed to see the industry moving so slowly.

    1. Re:The great thing about SATA2 by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 2, Informative

      Dude, where have you been? There's no need for SATA2, Plextor's had these out forever now.

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  3. Does the article crash your Firefox? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 2, Informative


    The referenced article crashes the latest version of Firefox, but not the latest version of Mozilla.