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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.