Originally Posted by Bavarian

I just built my new dual-core PC last weekend, and one of my most favorite toys is the HD, Chris. It's a Western Digital 250GB drive. It spins at 7200RPM, but has the SATA-2 interface. This allows for 3GB/s operation (twice that of SATA-1). Now while my seek time is still twice as slow as yours, the transfer is twice as quick. Plus the 250GB model has a unique 16MB cache, as opposed to 8MB of most others.