Everyone and I mean everyone went crazy when SATA hit the market what seems like years ago. To our dismay (I'm including myself of course) it was a meager speed increase from the 7200RPM 8mb cache drives from the likes of Western Digital and a few others, mainly in terms of overall desktop use. At that time I had 4 IBM Deskstars running in RAID 0 using a promise card and I was probably the last person thinking of going to grab some SATA drives just so I could say I had them. SATA at that time needed some increases to speed to match its price tag. Well now its a bit different, people are taking into consideration the benefits of NCQ, smaller cables, and a big jump in speed.