Looks like Serial ATA is bringing even more benefits of SCSI technology to we consumers , namely a new industriousness - standard Native Command Queuing ( NCQ ) technology that we ’ll first get a appreciation of in Seagate ’s new Barracuda 7200.7 . What makes NCQ drive so interesting are their ability to more expeditiously cache request for data from the CPU , effectively provide more data with less twirl of their platters , mean they are not only faster , but should also moderate to longer - lived drives . PCWorld has some of the first entropy about the engineering science , although no benchmark yet . Unfortunately , it ’s pretty safe to say that unless you want to drop a bunch of money to be on the thinning sharpness , you wo n’t be using NCQ drives for a while . It ’s not that the drives are that much more expensive — Seagate is suppose about $ 5 more for now , that will fall by to negligible increases soon — but that most forward-looking SATA computer hardware and motherboards are n’t fit out to utilize the drives . Still , as anyone who has been around me during the First through Sixth Hard Drive Calamities will know , anything that lessens the chance of a crashed crusade makes me a felicitous gentleman . ( Thanks , Daniel ! )
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