It makes a huge difference for networked storage. For some rough equivalency (ignoring seek times, but also ignoring tcp overheads etc, total spherical cow terr

It makes a huge difference for networked storage. For some rough equivalency (ignoring seek times, but also ignoring tcp overheads etc, total spherical cow territory) - An 8x cdrom narrowly beats 10meg ethernet. - 1x dvdrom narrowly beats 100meg ethernet. - ATA133 narrowly beats 1gbit ethernet. Original SATA is 1.5gbit, so 1Gbit ether bottlenecks us to 1999 storage speeds.