Hi Tom, Serial ATA (SATA) has been designed and marketed as the replacement for parallel ATA (or IDE), the most common disk drive interface in home and office computers. SATA I drives and controllers have been around for some time, however, improvements to the SATA interface led to SATA II that is faster and more reliable. What's the real difference between SATA I and SATA II? SATA II is better because of three important features, port multipliers, port selectors and native command queuing. SATA I drives have a transfer speed of 150mbps and SATA II is 300mbps. These features provide definitive improvements over SATA I. SATA II drives will generally be backwards compatible but will run at SATA I transfer speeds.
Regards, Stuart Stuart Evans AppleCentre Albany (T4 Technology) 9842 9660 >From: tom samson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: SATA and SATA2 >Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:30:02 +0900 >X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) > >I have seen both for sale. What is the difference? >
