SATA 150 and SATA II
Posted:
Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:36 pmby imchief
What is the difference between SATA 150 and SATA II interfaces? Is there a significant increase in performance from one to the other? I want to get tha fastest 7200 rpm HDD I can. Once again please shed some light.
Joe
Re: SATA 150 and SATA II
Posted:
Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:24 pmby the_autopilot
SATAII drives offer higher bandwidth and Native Command Queing (well, most do). It also offers higher transfer speeds.
Unless you do intensive HD read/writing, there is no significant performence gain.
Just for gaming, a SATA 150 is perfectly fine. BTW, your mobo must also support SATA II to be able to ultilize SATAII HD to their fullest.