The SATA standard proves to be a very capable successor of Ultra ATA. Parallel ATA served the desktop community for over 20 years, but it's time to be gone. I bet that Ultra ATA drives will still be available on the market in 2005. Hopefully the price of the SATA drives will get lower in the next months, because the current price is a little bit exaggerated. Most manufacturers presented only high performance drives in SATA versions which doesn't encourage users to get SATA. This standard provides interesting external storage options and promises a much better performance than the current parallel ATA. I am looking forward to see full-SATA controllers, cards able to work with four or even more SATA drives. Personally I like SCSI disks due to their performance. When the 15,000 rpm disks will appear in SATA versions I will recommend SATA to business users. SCSI RAID controllers are far more advanced than the current SATA controllers, but I think this will change when the business opportunity will be around the corner.