"..While Western Digital's touted 33% faster data transfer rate translates through the benchmark application to more like 18-20%, the Expert is nevertheless one of the fastest IDE drives currently available.
All in all the drive is simply first rate and seems to be very fairly priced in the $200-$230.00 price range. Personally, I am a bit more comfortable with a drive of this size over say, the WD Expert 18G HDD, as it keeps the timeframe for executing disk management utilities such as defrag, scandisk and antiviral applications down to reasonable levels without the need for creating multiple partitions.."