Sata?

  It's been a long time since I built my last computer and I'm getting ready to build a new one. I was wondering what the pros and cons of sata are, and maybe get a comparison to ata. Thanks in advance.

um, well i dont know if this a universal problem but my sata connection hd seems to like to come loose if i move my comp to much, quick fix though, otherwise i think it is fine.

>>1
PROs:
better cable management -> better airflow
dedicated channels

CON:
slightly higher cost

SATA has a higher data rate than PATA, and four sata connectors = four channels. This only matters if you have more than one hard disk.

SATA>ATA kay?

in fact, sata and sata 2 is kinda useless, unless you consider the technical improvements on the sata hard disks itself (NCQ for example). the performance limiting factor at ´hard disks was never the connection to the motherboard, but mechanical and physical limits.  due to these limits todays ordinary hard disk cant afford more than 60-70 megabyte per second. my maxtor 300 gb sata2, 7200rpm, 16mb cache reaches 60  mb/s for example and my 1 and a half year old 160gb ide disk reaches 50mb/s.
if you want hard disk performance then use raid0.

>>6
if you want hard disk performance then use raid0.

Or www.opera.com and lunix

prepare for solid state hard drives with near-zero access/seek times however