That all changed with the emergence of the latest Serial ATA revision, and although the new SATA II specification never panned out, proposed features like NCQ increased 7200 RPM SATA drive performance quite noticeably. Now we have a new generation of high-capacity NCQ-enabled drives that offer performance matching, or even surpassing, that of the venerable WD Raptor. The Seagate Barracuda 400GB SATA is just such a hard drive, and it blends speed and capacity in a way few competitors can match..



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