Analysis and Conclusion
Speed? Check. Fast? Yes. High-capacity? Some may say overkill! How about PRICE?
With a current online price of about $100 this vast 750GB laptop hard drive is a great solution for the storage hungry laptop-junkie. Solid State Drives are an excellent mobile computing choice – if you have the green to meet the current high price tags. But if you are in need of high capacity storage for your laptop on a budget, without compromising too much, the latest in the momentus line of 2.5″ SATA II laptop hard drives, the model ST9750420AS with its 750GB of storage goodness would be an excellent choice. Although alone no standard consumer rotational hard drive will beat out the performance of an SSD, Seagate offers extreme capacity with great performance, at an affordable price point.
All new drives,whether SSD,SSH or HDD should be SATA III 6gb/s,with backward compatibility for SATA II ans SATA 1.
The switch needs to be made,NOW!
Rotational media and most released SSD’s barely max out the bandwidth of SATA-IO spec SATA II, releasing all drives with SATA III as standard would increase costs so the switch is not totally necessary right now.
If the device is capable of SATA III speeds and exceeds SATA II speeds then yes it should definitely be SATA III