PATA 66+ cables are very easy to break, I found out they use single aluminium wire and just bending the cable will break it. I had major problems with bad cables not knowing why they become bad so easily. The older cables were no problem with twisting it around inside the case to make it fit properly... There should be no speed difference between SATA (150mhz) and PATA (133mhz) since all the hd's now come in both versions and only the interface is different. Of course if you run a RAID system the performance will be better with SATA just like using SCSI. So cable wise SATA is a much better alternative.. Not so much chance to break the cable....
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