> > The best performing drives are Western Digital Raptors, which have > > seek times about half what standard SATA drives have. But the largest > > one is only 150GB or so, and it's much more expensive than standard > > SATA drives. Right now the best compromise between price and storage > > capacity (the largest drives are always more expensive per GB) is 400 > > or 500GB, I think; the most recent drive I bought is a 500GB Maxtor > > drive that I believe was $229. > > > > > > > > Nick Batzdorf, editor/publisher > he is the link: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid15 it was posted last month.