“In the technology world improvements in speed, quality, and price are constant. Better, faster, and cheaper are key and true ideals in the marketplace. One area that has seen massive gains in size is the storage market but unfortunately the technology behind it hasn’t seen as many improvements until recently. Previously tied down to the parallel interface Serial ATA drives are now more and more becoming the standard and we look at one today, Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K80.”
It looks like the SATA II has the advantage over a regular SATA drive.. faster in all tests. Check out the full review at AMD Zone.