External Data Transfer Rate:
300 MBps
External Data Transfer Rate is used to measure how quickly a hard drive is able to move data to the system. This is highly dependent on the interface type used.
Seek Time:
0.1 ms
Refers to the time a drive takes to locate a particular piece of data.
Interface (Detailed):
Serial ATA II
The interface is the type of connection (such as FireWire or USB) used by your hard drive. Home systems will mostly use an IDE interface. Professional systems can use higher quality interface, as SCSI.
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