Our partner Macway has lend us a sample of a ATA version 7k500 for couple of hours.
so, we installed it in one of our computer, and had a look at it.
as you can see, once formatted, the real capacity of this HD is 465.8GB. We have installed the 7k500 as an internal drive (replacing the SuperDrive)
Without any surprise, this HD has saturated the ATA66 bus of the SuperDrive with data transfer over 60MB/s (read and write).
currently, only the 8MB cache ATA version of this drive is available in small quantities. We do not know when the SATAII version including 16MB of cache will be available.
we will of course run a test as soon as it becomes REALLY available.
