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Investigating SATA 6Gbps Performance

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Storage | 16th Nov 2009

We add Seagate's latest Barracuda XT hard disk with new Gigabyte and Asus P55 motherboards featuring SATA 6Gbps to see what performance potential, if any, the latest SATA standard offers.

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Icy Box IB-NAS4220-B Network Storage

[23] 1st Feb 2009

On Our Desk - 15

[28] 29th Jan 2009

G.Skill Titan 256GB SSD

[30] 20th Jan 2009

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB Hard Disk

[29] 1st Jan 2009

Intel X25-E 32GB SSD

[30] 17th Dec 2008

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB

[56] 9th Dec 2008

G.Skill, Intel & Patriot SSD group test

[42] 3rd Dec 2008

QNAP TS-209 II Turbo NAS

[12] 24th Sep 2008

QNAP TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS

[15] 21st Sep 2008

On Our Desk - 13

[40] 18th Sep 2008

On Our Desk - 12

[19] 23rd Aug 2008

Silverstone MS05 2.5" Enclosure

[8] 10th May 2008

Emprex NSD-100 P2P Download Engine

[40] 29th Apr 2008

Silverstone Treasure TS01B 2.5" Enclosure

[19] 27th Apr 2008

Icy Box IB-MP303S-B Media Player

[21] 13th Mar 2008

Samsung 32GB Solid State Drive

[52] 21st Jul 2007

Seagate 160GB 2.5" Portable Hard Disk

[13] 3rd Feb 2007

Seagate 500GB eSATA External HDD

[19] 5th Dec 2006

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