For those in the vicinity, Frye's Electronics (I was at the one in Burbank) has a special going on 500GB, 7200 rpm SATA II internal drives, 16MB cache" for $99. I had heard that Seagate bought Maxtor, the box is a Maxtor OEM box, and after buying one, on checking the diagram on the drive (says to remove the jumper to enable 3GB speed), I saw "Seagate 7200.10" printed on the label. It's running very quiet.