I had taken a look at that drive. Very impressive, I must say. I'm normally a Western Digital buyer, but to be fair I haven't really given Maxtor a try.

But you're right, it looks to be the best of both worlds. I get a giant drive, and some reviews I've read rate it as almost as fast as Raptors. 16MB is pretty good too

I think that when I eventually go this direction, I'll get a good controller card (I'm going to research those now), and the 300GB Maxtor. That would put me in at about 650GB. I'm on my way to a TB! Woohoo!

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I've been trying to research this controller card thing, and I think I need some more help. I'd like to stick to a good brand, but the only ones of these that I recognize as being decent companies are Adaptec and Promise. The Adaptec cards are too expensive, and I can't figure out if the Promise cards have NCQ, becuase their web site isn't working for me. Anyone else? Tony, could you reboot the internet for me? It would be a great help. Thanks