Can you believe it? We have drives reaching 400 gigs already! Hitachi’s 7K400 hard drive has officially reach the previously mentioned storage capacity like it was nothing. I guess with expectations so high these days, seeing a drive with so much storage potential is just not as big a deal as it once was. Still, I think it is a pretty big deal though. :o)

The past year saw very few changes in the hard drive market, as the maximum capacity barrier of 250 GB (reached in spring 2003) remained unsurpassed until a few weeks ago. At the same time, drives with a Serial ATA interface are hardly more expensive these days than the Ultra-ATA solutions. Also, there is an increasing number of drives supporting command queuing, at last providing Serial ATA with significant added value.