SATA. When??

[Hati]

OCWorkBench has some infos on SATA drives from Seagate :

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/seagate/sata/satap1.htm

Hati

[rugger]

With hard drives,

Forget about electrical latency. The latency of the physcial heads is always dozens of magnitudes longer. The extra latency an SATA to PATA converter would introduce would be trivial. As long as the converter can keep up with the PATA interface, I see no problems with it performance wise.