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There is a new interface called SATA II that is currently the best. SATA II drives are usually backwards-compatible. For example, my hard drive has a jumper I can put in to limit it to the original SATA. I forgot to link to the Wikipedia article here in my last post for more information. However, no drive that I know of sustain speeds anywhere near the maximum of serial ATA 3.0 gigabits/s.

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Are Seagate hard drives good? If not what models would u say is are good (Model that does not die fast)

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Are Seagate hard drives good? If not what models would u say is are good (Model that does not die fast)

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I have a Seagate that works very well, and I'd recommend either Seagate or Western Digital.

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Can u describe how to clone hard drives plz?

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Do you have any software in mind? Or, some hard drives come with software that allows you to clone from an older hard drive. Seagate's DiskWizard uses Acronis, I believe, which is a very popular imaging program. You can read about DiskWizard here. The instructions vary for the specific software you use for cloning/migrating data. Western Digital has its Data Lifeguard Tools that I believe can migrate data, although I am not sure if it uses an image or just copies the files. An alternative would be something like Symantec's Norton Ghost, which is quite popular.

There is a guide on cloning here from PCStats.com that includes a few free alternatives, although I would recommend either Ghost or the tools provided from the hard drive manufacturer.