Originally Posted by WildmonkeyUK
I'd get the seagates over any other SATA drive and here is the reason why ( geek mode activated )
Seagate DESIGNED serial ATA with intel and their drives are "true" SATA drives rather than having a SATA->PATA bridging system like the other drives. basically this means that all the other drives are designed using the same technology as the PATA drives but they have added a bridging system and a convertor so they can connect to the SATA.
Seagates also are the only drives to use Cyclic Redundancy Checking and they also have the ability to use Native Command Queuing. Seagate's 7200.7 is the only native SATA interface commercially available as its a true SATA connection and not a psuedo drive.
Riiiiiiiight :) Hope this technobabble has helped - I'll turn off geek mode now and go and do some work
Lee