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Another speed related question. How much faster are SATA II drives 
compared to regular SATA drives in real life? And - does NCQ really 
help? I'm just looking for a general guess in the form of, "The Disk IO 
upgrading to SATA II with NCQ will generally be X% faster." What value is X?