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Originally Posted by chucker
SerialATA-based drives are definitely faster than ParallelATA ones, so I'm not sure where you're coming from. Yes, for long read/write operations, drives barely even get to 50 MB/s, but what's much more significant is access times and short operations.
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We are talking about laptop drives here, not desktop, so I don't know where you are coming from...
Let me reference a TomsHardware article here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/...ous/page6.html
Take a look at the two (SATA, and PATA) seagate 7200 rpm laptop drives there. They are pretty much equal overall.