Originally posted by: MrCoyote
Good deal on SATA.
There is not really any speed advantage right now over ATA/100/133. But the advantage of SATA is that it doesn't run on the standard PCI bus. It has it's own pipeline for communications! So it won't hog the PCI bus, like regular ATA drives.
Originally posted by: tedinde
Biggest advantage is getting it off the IDE cables for DVD/cd copying.
My DVD burning rig. 4 2500NEC's and 2 seagate 160 SATA HD's is a error free rocket when burning to all 4 at once.