I m removing the claim that bridged designs significantly reduce throughput I don t see a single benchmark justifying this claim anywhere on the contrary every site I ve seen concludes that there is no appreciable performance difference that bridged drives outperform native drives at least as often as not and such differences are to be attributed to superior logic and firmware rather than differences between native and bridged implementations Even the manufacturers of native SATA drives only mention command queueing the insignificant 150 vs 133 MB s interface issue which doesn t make any appreciable real world difference and the question of which power connector is superior 18 03 28 Oct 2004 UTC