Well, today I was out at CompUSA and I saw a pretty nice deal on a 120GB Maxtor SATA drive with the 8mb cache...

Now I really don't *need* any more storage space on my machine (360GB is enough even for me), but I have recently been having some problems with my Promise ATA RAID card.  The card is fine if you just want RAID to mirror or stripe and you are running Windows, but if you want to run Linux (mono anyone?), or (and this was my biggie) if you want to make a nice image using Ghost or Drive Image you are just plain out of luck.

So I decided that since my new motherboard has built-in SATA I'll give it a shot.  I haven't really seen the performance yet, as the drive is formatting as I type this, but I must say, the tiny drive cable is nice.  Especially coming from having to pay way extra for rounded IDE cables.

Once I finish this PHP project I have to deliver on Monday morning I will switch the new drive to my primary & install Windows on it.  One of my good friends told me it took him about 15 minutes to install Win XP Pro on his new system with SATA drives.  I can't wait to see this...