Are SATA drives less resilient to file-system corruption than IDE?

["Mortimer" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Over the past couple of months I've been called to three customers whose PCs 
have failed to boot. When I put the HDD in a second computer, Windows CHDSKs 
it, corrects a few filesystem errors and leaves the disk in a state where it 
will boot the original PC perfectly.

In all three cases, the PCs have had SATA drives. I've never seen this 
symptom with IDE disks. Is there something about SATA drives which makes 
them more vulnerable to filesystem corruption than IDE ones, assuming the 
same filesystem (NTFS) and OS (XP) in both cases?

When I asked the owners about events that led up to the problems, the common 
factor is a mains blip or power-cut: in one case something fell on the mains 
lead and connector and may have interrupted the mains for an instant; in 
another case it transpired that the house had an over-sensitive RCD which 
"is always tripping-out when I turn the garage light on"!