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WD SATA II drives?
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StorageJoe
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Top Nurse said:
What?
Though I disagree with Nurse's coarse presentation 
he's right on the money on WD pulling a marketing gimmick here. When WD advertises "SATA-II" it is only implementing the faster 3gbps transfer rate, none of the other recent SATA features such as NCQ, staggered spin-up, hot-plug, etc. However, this addition will have a huge impact on WD's marketing - they can now advertise that their drives are "twice as fast" as the lowly SATA-150 competition. Never mind that there is not a sinlge usage model that will receive any recognizable boost in performance from such a change in interface. I honestly doubt that WD has even moded to a single chip SATA interface yet - I have seen no data to the contrary.
he's right on the money on WD pulling a marketing gimmick here. When WD advertises "SATA-II" it is only implementing the faster 3gbps transfer rate, none of the other recent SATA features such as NCQ, staggered spin-up, hot-plug, etc. However, this addition will have a huge impact on WD's marketing - they can now advertise that their drives are "twice as fast" as the lowly SATA-150 competition. Never mind that there is not a sinlge usage model that will receive any recognizable boost in performance from such a change in interface. I honestly doubt that WD has even moded to a single chip SATA interface yet - I have seen no data to the contrary.Dark Ember
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DougLite said:Though I disagree with Nurse's coarse presentation
I believe (from reading OC&C a lot) that TN is a female...
I completely agree with what you are saying there though. Its all marketing. Its a shame there isn't an official spec for this stuff like the ATA-7 spec that manufacturers could claim to support. Doing this kind of thing is just twisting words (which all of the manufacturers are guilty of).
Unfortuantely, I have no way to tell readily, and it's like Lazn_Work said - "Welcome to the Internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents ... who are men." I realize that my English teacher from high school would have a fit for doing this, but "he" will suffice in my mind as a generic pronoun for describing fellow forum members in the third person - it's half the keystrokes of "s/he." I apologize to all of our female members, but real life gender of our members isn't revealed too often, I wouldn't want to reveal such personal info myself, and I have no readily available independent confirmation on such matters. Also, I didn't want to be caught callously assuming that "Nurse=female," as that is as 'politically' dangerous as assuming that every computer gamer is male. Enough on that.Dark Ember said:
Back to the original topic, this is in fact a mere marketing gimmick to increase market share among the crowd that buys their hard drives at BestBuy, etc. 300MB/sec is twice as fast as 150MB/sec, right?
Native SATA designs are becoming more and more common, and it is correct that Seagate did it first. In fact, Seagate is the only maker that has never used a PATA bridge chip. The advantages of such a design are numerous, fewer chips, smaller chips, easier signal integrity maintanence, and less PCB space required for the interface to the system. This makes the drives easier and cheaper to produce and somewhat more reliable (but obviously, mechanical failure is still by far the most frequent cause of hard drive passage). Accountants have got to love this, as a SATA drive also commands a higher price on the market