Ok one thing that has been bugging me. WD came out with 10,000 rpm ide drives, how come no one else did? And the raptors are freaking <I>small</I>.<BR><BR>I would like to 10,000(better yet 15,000) rpm ...

You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your collection– apparently they require drives using logical block addressing, which ...

Not anytime soon. Have not heard any rumblings from any of the HDD makers on a 10K IDE drive. The technology is there, but whether the market is there is debatable. Sure, what geek out there doesn't ...