Hello
  It is my understanding that the bottleneck is presently on the hard
drives themselves as few saturate their respective interface.  The only
SATA drive I know of that comes close is the ultra scsi fast SATA WD 10K
rpm Raptor.  However I assume cost is a consideration and while SATA drives
seem to sell for no less than around 50 cents a Gig, occaissional sales in
the USA have PATA as low as 25 cents a Gig ie 160 Gig for 40bucks for a WD
from Best Buy.  The hottest gaming machines made which are the fastest
desktop PCs in existence, those in the $5000 and up category which usually
sport the AMD FX57 64bit processor btw, also tend to have 2 Raptors in raid
(for extreme speed) but because of their relatively small size availability
(max 74Gig) also have a 250-300 Gig storage drive, often the new Maxtors w/
16M cache, all SATA.  However these as you can see are
price-is-no-object,speed-is-everything PCs.  In gaming, lack of speed can
get you "killed" so even milliseconds count, but I can't

 imagine that your needs are quite so intense, nor your purse so cavalier,
so I wouldn't rule out  PATA w/o first checking prices.
Jimmy





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