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Eddie3dfx said:In all honesty these hardrives are just too big for the average user.
I am more than content with 100gigs for everything and I don't even use 3/4 of this drive.
I just picked up a seagate sata 320gig from Newegg for the speed (sata 3.0m, $79 shipped)
The seagate drives and the raptors do extremely well in most of the benchmarks.
I hope in the future the techs will start developing for speed rather than just pushing the data mark.

Wrong on so many levels. I don't know what kind of files you're storing but between OS, necessary programs, games, and pictures alone I blow through 100GB in the first day. Add in music, storage for video editing (i.e. converting home movies), etc and you're looking at 400+ GB easily. Second, just because a drive is SATAII *does not mean it's fast*. Hard drive speed is mostly based on data density, not interface bandwidth. The more data you can squeeze into a smaller area, the faster it can be accessed. As far as raptors and seagates doing "extremely well" - there are so many levels of performance measurement for drives that blanket statements like that just don't work. Some drives have killer access times but poor write performance. Some do well in synthetic benchmarks while others load windows faster. Rather than make generalizations about brands and types, you should use something like tom's hardware guide which has tons of data about hard drives including noise and temperatures which are other very important factors in choosing a drive.

My order shipped yesterday and I will get it by 05/01.

Thanks OP!

These are Hot swappable?

Hot while it lasted, even though it was a bare drive. Hopefully we will see this again soon....