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Bytesector has posted a review on the Seagate 7200.7 SATA (NCQ) harddisk



Seagate has always seemed like a small manufacturer in the market. Always right next to Maxtor in the low to mid-end drives, but never quite making it big in the custom parts market. Today though, they are the first to go public with a Serial ATA hard drive that sports an updated queuing function referred to as Native Command Queuing (or NCQ). This technology has been developed with the purpose of replacing the older, much less efficient Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ). The technology was brought in with Intel’s latest 900 series chipsets and just recently found its way into nVidia’s nForce4 chipset. Seagate has done a great job at bringing this technology to the market without delay. This should make them a choice manufacturer for hard drives for all those people looking to purchase a new i900 series or nForce4 based system. So is the performance significant enough to warrant the purchase of the 7200.7 NCQ SATA hard drive? Let’s find out!
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