Just one bad experience with a SATA HDD dosen't make SATA bad.
Not to mention the problem must have been with the actual HDD, so why blame the SATA interface?
SATA offers higher speeds and less cable clutter in the cabinet. Not to mention eSATA ports on newer mobo's allow you to hot-plug SATA HDD's.
Pretty soon all optical drives will also shift to SATA. Like it or not IDE will die within the next 2 Intel chipsets.