Greetings!

Let's see... (I read in flat mode, so this is likely to cross over a few subthreads...)

1TB. An interesting possibility, but I will have to pass on that for now. Not that the bragging rights wouldn't be cool. It is just that I already have plenty of redundant hardware and anything else would be further overkill. Plus I would have the 1TB storage, but it is cheating if it is used to store five copies of the same data...

As it is, this purchase has delayed my planned computer system upgrade / rebuild.

I will let you know how the 100s work out. They are on order and I should get them soon. I did not express ship this time, because I will not be able to get to them until the weekend anyway. So if someone wants to try for faster delivery to get the first 200GB (nominal capacity) player, the window of opportunity is open (but rapidly closing).

As for the price, it really is not that bad. On a price per gigabyte, yes, these are the highest cost laptop drives out there. But the capacity cannot be matched. I was wondering if Toshiba will try to "top this" with a 120GB drive also. They must be pretty close. But this is a good capacity for me - it should fit all of my data (no more offline archives) and leave some small room for expansion.

I am just a little surprised, and still slightly skeptical that the major PC OEM market and the other vendors do not semm to have them on their radar yet. Perhaps Toshiba was spending more time with their contracts and partnerships than with development and production...

In any case, I will document my adventures. Mark has already pushed the empeg capacity well beyond this with initial IDE testing (long ago using desktop drives), so I am fairly confident this will work.