Sata II Seagate Drives?

[kindest]

im looking to get a nice new Seagate sata II drive 200g+ (just for upgradeable purposes) with my new nforce4 board. however on newegg when i search for sata II only this one comes up.

Seagate 120GB Barracuda 7200RPM SATA II with NCQ Hard Drive, Model ST3120827AS
Capacity: 120GB
Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
Buffer: 8MB
Sustained Transfer Rate (Mbytes/sec): 32 to 58
Average Latency (msec): 4.16
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface: Serial SATA 150
Features: Up to 20 percent performance improvement over previous SATA, 100 percent software compatible with existing PCs

but when i look at the seagate drives wuthout searching i see this.
is this one sata II because it has NCQ. ive read that in some cases it means sata II and in others it doesn't. so im totally c onfused.

Seagate 7200.8 200GB 7200RPM SATA NCQ Hard Drive, Model ST3200826AS
Capacity: 200GB
Average Seek Time: 8 ms
Buffer: 8MB
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface: SATA
Features: Single-chip Serial ATA interface with Native Command Queuing, SoftSonic motor, RoHS-compliant, Enhanced G-Force Protection

Do 200G+ sata II seagate drives exist because i cant find them. why the heck would they make only a 160gig one..seems pretty stupid. also maxtors sata II drives have 16meg of cache while seagate only has 8.. much of a difference there?

 

[Mem]

Do 200G+ sata II seagate drives exist because i cant find them

The 7200.8 SATA2 200GB HD is not out yet as far as I know,only the 250gb, 300GB and 400GB models are available at this time.

From what I understand NCQ is part of the SATA2 spec,




Seagate info on NCQ here (note PDF file).

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: Mem

Do 200G+ sata II seagate drives exist because i cant find them

The 7200.8 SATA2 200GB HD is not out yet as far as I know,only the 250gb, 300GB and 400GB models are available at this time.

From what I understand NCQ is part of the SATA2 spec,




Seagate info on NCQ here (note PDF file).

kewl i read that. i just where im getting doubts is that no where on segates site does it say Sata II.
it just says Sata WITH NCQ. maybe their english is real bad. 😛

 

[Mem]

It does say,

NCQ is among the advanced and most anticipated features introduced in the Serial ATA2:Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0 specification

.

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: Mem
It does say,

NCQ is among the advanced and most anticipated features introduced in the Serial ATA2:Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0 specification

.

i guess you gotta point there. 😛
just wish they would flat out say Sata II drive which has the latest QNCQ etc. etc.

 

[darkswordsman17]

They have a 160Gb version that has SATA-II support. I've had it for several months.

 

[Mem]

They have a 160Gb version that has SATA-II support. I've had it for several months

That`s the older 7200.7 model,the new range(7200.8) start at 200GB and go up to 400GB.