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8ilbo:
Just been reading up on this actually...SATA II is not a specification....When the the SATA spec was changed to support 3GB/s (with backwards compatibility) the comittee was called SATA II and the name stuck to meaning 3GB/s....they now call themselves SATA-IO to avoid confusion but the damage is done...

Either way, look for a hard drive with a large cache (16mb is ideal, but generally only found on drives 160GB+) and the higher transfer rate of 3GB/s (this is comonly and as I now understand mistakenly called SATA-II). I had a look at an overview of the SATA spec and couldn't find anything reffering to capacity (I assume you mean capacity for storage not capacity for bandwidth - either way I'd have to disagree)

Of course with laptops its usually very hard to be that specific with hard drives, but its points to look out for....

nihilist:
The Flash-based HDs (32 and 64GB) are the solid state stuff I was referring to.  It isn't just about space, but speed.  Same with the hybrid Flash/SATA drives.

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