Native Command Qeueing question

[Jackpine]

I was wondering if there is any problem with having a boot disk that comes with Native Command Qeueing (Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2), and a data disk that doesn't have NCQ (WD 2500KS 250GB SATA2)?

Are there any issues such as compatibility, speed, etc?

 

[4745454b]

None that I know of.

I also wouldn't pay extra for a drive with NCQ. I haven't seen any benchies that show NCQ makes your system faster. The synthetic benchies might show the NCQ drives faster, but "normal" consumer usage doesn't access the harddrive enough to warrent adding in server things like NCQ, AID0, etc.

 

[nobly]

Adding to the previous poster,

NCQ is pretty useless unless you have a server environment. In some cases it makes the drive slower.

 

[RichPLS]

None whatsoever...