Has there been any meaningful progress in hard drive technology in the last 3 years ?. I am not talking about gigabytes of storage - I know you can get plenty of it these days but speed and seek time. I am planning to upgrade and I wonder whether I should still keep my ATA100 IBM 7200 rpm drive which though only 13.5 GB in size has proven to be very reliable. I don't care for storage but I definitely would appreciate extra performance in FS2002 and I do understand that SCSI technology doesn't really buy you much while simming.Michael J.

not really, just increase in cache amounts. Serial ATA performance is not much faster than IDE. I wouldn't spend money for anything you won't notice. If th 13GB is enough space, keep it

Actually besides the fact of larger cache sizes ( Which provide for an amazing speed increase ) Hard drives have seen a dramatic increase in areal Density per platter. What this means is the manufacturers have found a way to more storage space on a smaller number of platters. There has also been an decrease in seek times on most newer hard drives.If I was you I would use the IBM for storage and invest in an 80 Gig WD Drive w the 8 Meg of cache. These are truly amazingly fast drives. The decrease in loading times and tansfer rates can make a huge improvement in a system.Bobby