HERE new 120GB Serial ATA 150 7200 RPM Barracuda 7200.7 is ready for ordering. Prices around $200. :!:

I'm glad they're finally out. Hopefully someone will do a review on those new WD Raptors soon. Can't wait to see how they perform.

Western Digital have a 10,000RPM, 8 Meg cache, SATA drive with Dynamic Fluid Bearings.

Those are the Raptors. They're supposed to be about $160 for a 40 gig with a 5 year warranty.

They look impressive on paper.

Performance Specifications
Data Transfer Rate
- Buffer to Host
- Buffer to Disk
150 MB/s max 2
102 MB/s max
Average Read Seek 5.2 ms (average)
Track-to-track Seek 3 0.7 ms (average)
Full Stroke Read Seek 3 10.2 ms (average)
Average Latency 2.99 ms
Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM
Read Cache Adaptive
Write Cache Yes
Buffer 8 MB
Drive Ready Time 7.0 sec average
Start/Stop Cycles 20,000 min
Error Rate
(non-recoverable) < 1 in 1015 bits read