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Seagate's SATA II with NCQ?

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ManDooM

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I'm about to purchase a Seagate SATA 160GB Barracuda 7200.7 and was curious if it was worth the $2 extra to get the SATA II version ("up to 20 percent performance improvement over previous SATA..."). I've heard they were a bit louder than the 7200.7 drives. Considering that no single SATA or PATA drive even utilizes all the available bandwidth, does it make this "SATA II" just a gimmick at this point?
 
I'll answer my own question. My mobo doesn't support NCQ anyway. Phhht.

And I found out what NCQ is. For those who don't know read about it here.
 
those aren't actually SATA-II, anyway. They still say SATA150 under the specs. The only difference is the NCQ. As for SATA-II, it won't matter much in terms of speed for that type of hard drive. The only drives that could see a speed boost are 10000RPM drives like WD's Raptor line or Maxtor's 16MB Diamondmax 10 drives. Seagate released some 7200.8 drives, but the 16MB versions have not been released yet.
 
They work find under SATA150. I've installed on in a Chaintech VNF-250 board, works fine and is fast. But I don't notice much difference between it and a regular SATA 200gb seagate drive.
 
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