[ale] NCQ: Was: Build-yer-own NAS server

[Keith Hopkins]

Jay Finch wrote:
> 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
NCQ was a SCSI only feature, until recently when some drive mfgrs 
started including it on SATA drives.

For a little more background on how NCQ works, check out 
http://www.neoseeker.com/Hardware/faqs/kb/15,71.html

--Keith

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