You'll be limited to whatever data transfers the drive can push.   
More than likely the PCI bus will be the limiting factor at 33MB/sec

No real gotchas I can think of, except for avoiding !@#%!@ adaptec  
sata raid cards like the plague.

On Nov 8, 2007, at 8:25 AM, David wrote:

> I'm looking to get an esata pci card in the next few days and was
> wondering what recommendations, if any, the group has.
>
> Also, being new to sata, I have a couple newbie questions:
>
> Im using an older motherboard (my current ide drives have pretty bad
> performance).
>
> Will a sata/esata drive be limited by anything other than the pci bus
>   speeds (other than drive speeds)?
>
> Any other gotcha's, etc I should look out for?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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