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Not SATA2 300?

SATA2/300 is not supported, only SATA/150 and SATA/300.   afaik there are no SATA2 mobile drives currently in production.

due to current ATA bus speeds, you won't notice any difference in throughput between SATA/150 and SATA/300 drives.   this should change with the intel nehalem architecture.

erik wrote:SATA2/300 is not supported, only SATA/150 and SATA/300.

Perhaps you can show me otherwise, but according to this (which in turn refers to this), "SATA II" means (and is a misnomer for) "SATA/300." There are no separate "SATA/300" and "SATA2/300" standards. SATA/300 was originally slated to be called "SATA II" but the SATA committee decided against use of that name. The committee specifically tasked with the 300MB/s version of SATA called themselves the "SATA II" committee, but have since dropped that name in favor of the more universal "SATA-IO."

By SATA2, most people mean SATA/300, so by that definition (and I'm not aware of any other definition that could be used), ThinkPad T6x models are capable of "SATA2" rates.

-- Nathan

in that case, saying "SATA2" is completely incorrect and is why i was confused since it's not an approved standard or name for the standard.   regardless, SATA/150 and SATA/300 are supported.

erik wrote:in that case, saying "SATA2" is completely incorrect

'xactly.

-- Nathan

Thanks for the reply. So our T61 do support sata/300? but the drive come with it is only a sata/150 drive, right?