"madscientist" <nathan.samora@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126650401.130456.156130@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> Since most of the SATA drives out there use the same internal
> engineering of the PATA drives, those drives crash and burn easy.

If they're the same internally wouldn't they have the same failure rate as
PATA?

>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.

Calm down, there are millions of people running SATA drives with no
problems.

--
Derek