SATA-II will be the best thing to happen to hard drives since multiple platters were introduced. These drives just take it to another level altogether. I myself am wondering what the price point will be for a 0.5TB hard drive... never thought I'd say that one... heh.

"Hitachi's new family of Deskstar drives – models 7K500, T7K250 and 7K80 – offer capacities of 500GB, 250GB, 80GB and 40GB and bring a number of Serial ATA II features, such as 3 Gb/s data transfer rate, NCQ and Staggered Spin-up; higher-end models also feature a number of Hitachi's proprietary technologies available on higher-end Deskstar models."