Nothing wrong with USB. And when speaking of bottlenecks I just think about how the fastest Amiga IDE interface I know of is PIO 4, not even DMA (16.6MB/s, I believe, still no slouch for our purposes) so it is not the speed of SATA I am thinking of exploiting, but rather the physical compatibility.
Something like a Budda with a SATA port was more my thought, just to have a full hardware-level interface without cumbersome adapters which would be necessary for IDE-to-SATA and USB-to-SATA.
As I implied in my OP, I'm certainly not pushing this as a "we should do this" or anything of that ilk, just curiosity. You know, kinda like trying to get your girlfriend into an awkward position by joking about it first and gauging her response
