Greetings!

I haven't really noticed a difference in speed. The player is so good with keeping things cached and the drives spun down that it is hard to notice. I have not had any delays or problems, though.

One recommendation, and I think it was mentioned elsewhere in the BBS, is to modify the original /bin/rw and /bin/rwm scripts on the player so that they do not do a mini-fsck every time the scripts are run. On smaller, less full drives, it is not a problem, but you feel it here. Just add the nocheck flag, thus:

mount -n -o remount,rw,nocheck /drive0
[ -e /proc/ide/hdb ] && mount -n -o remount,rw,nocheck /drive1

On a positive note, the drives are quieter and use less power than my old 60s.

A week or two until they are available???