The Singularity is Near
Seagate has leaked (either by accident or an on-purpose accident) the up & coming Seagate 7200.10, which will have a 750GB version (the ST3750640A and ST3750640AS). Sporting a 16mb cache and supporting 3.0Gb/s SATA, these drives would kick some serious ass. 15 of those bad boys in my Vtrak 15200 would give a whopping 9 terabytes of storage in a RAID 50 + hot spare configuration (vs 4.8 terabytes that I have now). Damn!
According to Excaliberpc.com, the ETA for the drive is 5/1/2006, and they are asking $517 per drive. So the 15 drive thing is just a drug-induced hallucination for now. Well, by the time I get my tax return next year, they'll probably be in the $300-$350 range and I could at least fantasize about having them.