Need quick advice

[Technologic]

Hdd basically dead, taken me an hour to copy 1GB onto an external when it normally takes 2 minutes, need replacement now.

Just a quick Q, what's the different between SATA and SATAII? And is this an good drive.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288

[Stephen!]

SATA runs up to 150MB/s
SATAII runs up to 300MB/s

And yes, Samsung F1's are great drives

[N!ck]

Hdd basically dead, taken me an hour to copy 1GB onto an external when it normally takes 2 minutes, need replacement now.

Just a quick Q, what's the different between SATA and SATAII? And is this an good drive.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288

Yeah, it's a top drive. SATA II is newer. It runs at 300MB/s compared to SATA which runs at 150MB/s. SATA II drives are backwards compatible with SATA ports on your motherboard if that's what you're worried about.

[Technologic]

Cheers, also do microsoft give you a new license key if you need to replace a drive?

[DMB-Hosting]

Samsung's are decent hdd's and tbh you wouldn't really notice the difference in Sata and Sata II , it's mainly large enterprises that could use it more effectively.

[N!ck]

Hdd basically dead, taken me an hour to copy 1GB onto an external when it normally takes 2 minutes, need replacement now.

Just a quick Q, what's the different between SATA and SATAII? And is this an good drive.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288


Cheers, also do microsoft give you a new license key if you need to replace a drive?

You shouldn't need a new key.

[DMB-Hosting]

Cheers, also do microsoft give you a new license key if you need to replace a drive?

Use the same key.

[Stephen!]

Samsung's are decent hdd's and tbh you wouldn't really notice the difference in Sata and Sata II , it's mainly large enterprises that could use it more effectively.

This. You will only really hit the limit of SATA 150MB/s whilst using a RAID 0 array.

[N!ck]

Samsung's are decent hdd's and tbh you wouldn't really notice the difference in Sata and Sata II , it's mainly large enterprises that could use it more effectively.


This. You will only really hit the limit of SATA 150MB/s whilst using a RAID 0 array.

Exactly, but the Samsung F1 is pretty much at the limit of SATA I anyway as I get 120MB/s sustained read and write on mine.

[Tomm]

Or with a half-decent SSD.


This. You will only really hit the limit of SATA 150MB/s whilst using a RAID 0 array.

[Stephen!]

Or with a half-decent SSD.

Indeed, but if you had SSD, you wouldn't have a SATA1 mobo :P