[G4] Much Ado About Harddrives

[Eric Smith]

Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
...
> But there are also eSATA enclosures that connect to an eSATA PCI card 
> and are fully SATA I and SATA II compliant.
...

To be precise, there is no such thing as SATA II, as an official
standard. "SATA II" has come to be used by drive manufacturers to
indicate support for a 3 Gb/s transfer rate instead of SATA's
original 1.5 Gb/s. Other than that, the drives are probably the same.
See the following web page for more information:

http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp

Eric