I studied this SATA & NCQ issue and found out that the NCQ drives are even about 30% faster than their corresponding non-NCQ counterparts. This means quite a nice boost compared to "traditional" PATA133 drives.
I also found out that SATA 2 drives and chipsets are released soon, which means 300MB/s transfer bus per disk, so SATA2 in RAID0 will be fast as hell making the top notch SCSI drives obsolete. Although I'm not sure how high those new SATA 2 drives will be priced.
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