> SCSI (isn't that what SATA basically is anyway?), Nope, there is a lot of differences (Wiki would help on the details), most notably is what SATA was designe

> SCSI (isn't that what SATA basically is anyway?), Nope, there is a lot of differences (Wiki would help on the details), most notably is what SATA was designed to be cheap from the start, including the controller complexity; while SCSI demands a quite intelligent controller, which costs more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#Comparison_to_other_interfaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#Comparison_to_other_inter...