... let me start by saying ... sorry. I didn't mean to post this rant type post. but ... I had to register on this forum just to reply to this lunacy. Of course not. We're geeks we don't do things the easy way. I just don't know where to start with this. I actually don't know if i can reply with out getting out of control. Where did you ... no ... how on earth could you ... no ... good god man what the ... no ... what tests did you run ... ah, ffs. SATA + raid not faster than ata. <sigh> i have 2 sata drives in raid1 that on there own had better data read ( not sustained ) than my SCSI 160 drive. You sold PC's at future shop, didn't you.