Originally posted by: iseestars
Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Originally posted by: Sesopedalian
Any speed difference one would actually notice between this one and a SATA II?
There is no such thing as Sata II:
http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp
I liked the sata 150 and sata 300 because they were more accurate, sata 1.5Gbs and sata 3.0Gbs are market names. I'm tired of companies using bogus numbers.
Since no hard drive can actually hit 300 MB even in burst speed SATA 300 ports are safe for quite awhile.
That's not true. SATA II was a set of recommended features, which were integrated with varying degrees in new SATA drives by manufacturers. They changed the name of the specification to SATA-IO now, but to me the usage is still valid concidering there's no difference in practice.
We can argue the difference between a committee and a specification they suggest, but the net result is that the specification is going to be called by the name of the committee if they don't provide a clearer distinction. They changed their name relatively recently and haven't changed their specification so it's understandable people would still refer to that set of specifications as SATA II.