Purav Sanghani from AnandTech has taken a look at three SATA II hard drives. He investigated the Samsung HD160JJ, Western Digital WD1600JS and Hitachi T7K250 Serial ATA II hard drives. Here's a short snip: "All drives are, of course, SATA II units capable of 3.0Gb/s. The Samsung and Hitachi drives feature Native Command Queuing while Western Digital has decided to leave the feature out. The SATA II standard does not require any of these features but it is always nice to have them in any newly released drive. Our look at Seagate's Barracudas proved that NCQ has no great effect on regular day-to-day tasks so we are not expecting much from the feature this time around. Let's take a look at our testing methods..."



Link: AnandTech