I went from a Seagate 300GB Barracuda to a new raptor on my HTPC/torrent box.

Wow. It's like as fast as this:

Only less crashes around Europe!

sweet
i got 2 of the 300gb commin in the next week or so. gonna run them raid0.
thats good i was lookin for some one who tried these out. are they much faster then the other 74 36 and 150gb raptors?

wouldn't they be kind of noisey for an HTPC?

Storage review numbers show that not only is this the fastest Raptor yet, it's also the quietest (37.6dB) and most power efficient!

http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark/suite_v4.php?typeID=10&testbedID=4&osID=6&raidconfigID=1&numDrives=1&devID_0=360&devID_1=249&devID_2=306&devCnt=3

Only 2 hard drives score lower on the noise test, the 1TB from WD (which I got 3 of em) and the 500GB from Samsung.

Not just another pretty face.