HP Serial ATA Hard Drives maximize the performance of HP Business PCs by providing the technologies to meet your increasing storage demands with high-capacity drives offering superior reliability and performance. HP Serial ATA 6.0-Gb/s Hard Drives offer data transfer rates of up to 6 Gb per second doubling your interface speed over SATA 1.5-Gb/s Hard Drives. - Improved protocol for enhanced data integrity - Enhanced security prevents access to user data until one or two user-defined passwords are provided - Thinner and smaller serial cables and connectors for easy routing and improved system cooling - SMART IV technology constantly checks that the data flow from host interface to media and media to host interface is not compromised. - Native Command Queuing allows the hard drive to have several write or read commands outstanding at the same time