[ale] Build-yer-own NAS server

[Jay Finch]

Actually, all of Western Digital's SATA drives do *NOT* support NCQ.  
(I've been reading a lot of hard drive reviews lately)  WD decided not 
to build in NCQ support into their drives, and I know their SE16 (16MB 
Cache) series don't support SATA.

Seagate, Maxtor & Samsung all support NCQ for their SATA drives.

FYI - NCQ is a SATA-only feature.  I haven't seen it on any IDE drives.

Cheers!
Jay

J. D. wrote:
>
>
>     > Is NCQ only a feature on SATAII (SATA 300?) drives?  And yes
>     there are
>     > still plenty of PATA and SATA 150 drives on the market. 
>
>
>
> I have heard through a hardware provider that all the SATAII drives 
> they could find recently did include NCQ support. I have looked around 
> a little and it appears that may indeed be the case. Perhaps the 
> performance increase of the 3Gbps drives will overcome the performance 
> hit of the caching issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> J. D.
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