Ummm yea seagate has sata native harddrives. sata1 had not changed in the previous six months or so before its release. im running a 2.8c @ 3.15GHz and it whomps the crap outta my amd 2500+ barton @ 3200+. And fi you still wanna complain about sata, try raid0 on an overclocked southbridge, start up some GTA-VC and imagine goin from island to island and thinking its a video card issue and not really it loading the next island off the harddrive (maxtors .. not sata native, but dont tell their speeds that), so yea go for sata, and feel comfortable because sata 1 & 2 are supposed to be backwards compatible, and sata 2 & 3 are supposed to be backwards compatible also, make the upgrade process able to be spread out over a longer period of time and less of a hit to your wallet.