Bigger, faster and lesser noise...

IBM, Maxtor and Lacie is coming with new harddisk, each
of them with their own special properties.

IBM with their "Deskstar 180GXP" have a capacy of 180
giga bytes. The new harddisk is also equiped with "fluid dynamic
bearing ( fdb )".
A technique with oil layer which makes the harddrive more quite.
Price: 370 US dollars

Maxtor have on the other hand released a new intern
drive with a rpm of 5400, known as "Maxtor 250GIG", with a
capacity of 250 giga bytes.

While Lacie is still making extern drives. They have reached
a storage capacy on amazing 500 giga bytes (!). They
call it "Big Disk". Its also a 5400 rpm drive, connected through
FireWire.
Lacies "Big Disk" price is 4 digit, around 1100 US dollars.

Source: Pc for everyone

Wow cool... 500 giga bytes, many DivX movies...