With all the price changes on these monster drives I wonder if I should buy now or wait until the 200G get below $100?
Wont be long. We just bought a case of 20 200GB drives. I think it was $118 per drive. (It felt really strange to recieve 4 TB of disk space and have to pay less than $2500 for it. OTOH, if your not in a hurry, for anything beyond 120 GB I think I would wait for SATA support to get truly get there in linux and go that way. I say that because of the LBA48 issues with PATA drives over 120GB. I know we have inadvertantly destroyed the data on 2 200 GB PATA drives that we temporarily connected to IDE controllers without LBA48 support. As I understand it, all SATA controllers have the equivalent of LBA48 functionality and thus it is all plug and play. The problem with SATA is that the drivers are not very stable, and some of the controller / drive combos are apparently causing data corruption. Greg