Since most of the SATA drives out there use the same internal
engineering of the PATA drives, those drives crash and burn easy. Even
companies like seagate have high failure rates on SATA drives. I work a
hardware support job for a medium size company and see those SATA's
from Maxtor and WD fail left and right. Even to the point where they
have had to implement a company wide network backup system until we can
get reliable drives from Dell. All I can say is DON'T GO SATA YET!
These drives run too fast and hot for their own good.