New Toshiba SATA Drives Lack Performance Increase

Vikingod · Nov 17, 2005, 02:47 PM

Nine months ago, Intel presented its current mobile platform called Sonoma, offering support for Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives in notebooks for the first time. But acceptance of SATA is still poor today, because there is no urgent need for it from a performance point of view. While fast desktop drives do benefit from SATA features such as high interface bandwidth and command queuing, the notebook versions don't present impressive numbers, mostly because their rotation speeds are still slow.
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Nov 17, 2005, 02:47 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	New Toshiba SATA Drives Lack Performance Increase Nine months ago, Intel presented its current mobile platform called Sonoma, offering support for Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives in notebooks for the first time. But acceptance of SATA is still poor today, because there is no urgent need for it from a performance point of view. While fast desktop drives do benefit from SATA features such as high interface bandwidth and command queuing, the notebook versions don't present impressive numbers, mostly because their rotation speeds are still slow. __________ Read More / Source: Tom's Hardware Guide __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*