Flames, because I am hot :p

"SSDs don't have a seek time.

It's basically memory and one location can be read as quickly as any other. The interesting figures are throughput and read and write times."

True, but wrong.

The latancy of the drive has an impact on performance, so it may not have a seek time, it will have a latancy which is pritty much the same thing.

Other than laptop owners I want these beastys in my desktop so I can have a Raid 0 system (striping) with no noise, low heat and low pwr consumption.

So whilse I might beable to get the same performance from a pair of raptor drives, I do not want to invest in ear plugs, and a massive colling fan for an arry of them.

NB: did anybody else notice the 1.5Tb article...., that *new* drive is using SATA I ;( how poo.

Anyway, untill SSD's drop to *only* 50% more than a drive 50% bigger (raptor type price), there is no way this size will see much in the way of domestic sales. IMO

-ano