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my maxtor maxline III is a sata150, im doing 50-60mb/s transfer

would my transfer rate be faster if i have gotten a sataII? i read in some thread that sataII is a "marketing hype"
 
SATA II is marketing hype because while it defines more things like port multiplying and NCQ, it doesn't actually mean the hard drive has to support any of the features. Also, SATA drives don't really show much performance difference compared to PATA drives, unless, say, you have a Raptor 740GD.

Check out DougLite's informative post.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=921565

Anyway, the numbers you're getting for transfer fall in line with the drive's performance.
 
To expand on Bill's point a little more:

No, a higher interface speed will not help you in the test you ran. The score is limited by the mechanical capability of the drive. To get higher transfer rates, drive makers must either increase the number of sectors per track on each platter, or raise spindle speed.

As Bill said, those numbers are quite normal for a 7200RPM drive with 100GB platters, such as your Maxtor unit.

I have updated the article in ANSWERS that Bill linked to with this new passage
DougLite said:
Furthermore, none of these new features will improve the mechanical performance of a hard drive. You will see the same transfer rates and seek times with a 3gbps NCQ drive as the same drive running @ 1.5gbps without NCQ. Burst transfer rates will be higher at 3 gbps, but their impact on actual application level performance is small at most.
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"SATA-II" is great...if they don't charge you for it. Otherwise, it's just marketing hype and pure profit for the maker of the drive. Thankfully competition in the HDD business is so tight that prices on "SATA-II" drives are usually within $10 of their SATA-I counterparts, and the "SATA-II" drives are typically newer designs that have higher density along with bigger/better buffers, so they are worth the extra bucks then.

In the case of the 16MB _____S0 Maxtor drives, they are solid performers, even without "SATA-II"
 
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