That may be true, but I for one download alot of Anime off the net. Each episode comes to abou 175MB and some of my series are 70eps or so long. I can move data amazingly faster between drives and if I were on PATA (I used to be!) it would take sooo much longer, as I tend to 'process' anime in batches of 5gig at a time.
processing: renaming them perfectly and organizing
I maintain a mirror of all my new anime on two SATA hdds on my shuttle here and on 2 hdds (PATA) on my linux server, so at any given time I'll have a full backup..yes these are very precious. Off to DVDR they go when they are complete