SATA HD on Amiga computers

[Amiga_Nut]

But why would you want a SATA adaptor for the internal IDE port on AGA machines?

PATA drives can go upto 120gb on 2.5" and with careful selection of drive you can get a 7200RPM unit with a useful sized cache. Adding a SATA drive will still mean you are limited to the standard (low) transfer speeds on the  Commodore IDE interface used no?

If it's merely to get larger drives in there then fair enough, other than that I can't see an advantage though. That's not to say I'm not missing the whole point entirely though

[Amiga_Nut]

I can walk into any store and buy a cheap SATA disk, not so  for PATA disks. Disk speeds are irrelevant when it comes to amiga usage, no point in going above whatever the lowest you find, the bottleneck is elsewhere.

For transfer speeds true, for seek times the cache and spindle speed are paramount. As most Amiga files are tiny, the percentage of the total load time that seek time accounts for is significant.