Do my Hard Drives have NCQ?

[SlapFunk101]

I have two Seagate Hard Drives in my Dell 8400 computer. Dell says one is a NCQ drive, but Seagate's website says it is not. Or I should say that Seagate's site says both drives as OEM drives MIGHT have NCQ. Is there any way or program that will tell me if these drives actually have NCQ?

 

[MrControversial]

What's the model # on the HDs?

 

[SlapFunk101]

ST380013AS and ST3160023AS

Seagates product manual says they both MAY support NCQ in there OEM version. May being the key word. They may or may not, can I tell somehow? But the retail models do not.

 

[Hanpan]

For the 160gig the NCQ model ends in 27AS. The 23AS does not support NCQ. I will go on a limb and say the 80gig does not either.

 

[SlapFunk101]

Agreed Hanpan! But the Seagate product manual says the OEM versions of these drives MAY support NCQ. When I purchased my PC from Dell they said the 160GB had NCQ. I was just curious if there was a way to tell. Or maybe a program that would tell.

 

[MrControversial]

Hanpan is right, 23AS is not NCQ.

 

[SlapFunk101]

Thanks guys. That is what I thought, but just wanted some piece of mind.

 

[homercles337]

Why would you opt for NCQ anyway? Is this a server or something?

 

[SlapFunk101]

Well, I was really just curious if these drives supported it or not. From what I've read on these forums, it really doesn't offer much for a regular home user.

 

[Wicked2010]

Correction, it offers less than nothing.

It actually will cause a performance hit for using it.

Booo