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After spotting a deal on NewEgg.com for $115 final price WD Raptor 74GB hard drives I was unable to resist my need to consume and bought two of them. They are the fastest non-SCSI (affordable) drives on the market, and when I pair them both I'll have a very fast 150GB storage system. Unfortunately one of the drives ran for less than 15 minutes before a cycle of tick-and-spin killed it. My dream of ultra-fast storage is temporarily on hold until the replacement arrives. Why do I need the speed you ask? I'm impatient, and hard drive is the biggest bottleneck on my system right now. Had I known the drive was going to die I would have benchmarked it immediatly to see if it's even worth it, but I did get a geek shot of my transfer from my old RAID to the new one (before it died).