Come on Toshiba! Say it isn’t so… Apparently there is some hard feelings about the overall performance of their SATA drives this year.
Nine months ago, Intel presented its current mobile platform called Sonoma, offering support for Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives in notebooks for the first time. But acceptance of SATA is still poor today, because there is no urgent need for it from a performance point of view. While fast desktop drives do benefit from SATA features such as high interface bandwidth and command queuing, the notebook versions don’t present impressive numbers, mostly because their rotation speeds are still slow. [Read the rest]
[tags]sata,sonoma,serial ata[/tags]