For my after-Christmas wish list....

I have two empty Macally external drive enclosers, both EIDE (parallel ATA). One's for laptop-sized drives (2.5" wide, 9mm high); the other's for standard hard drives (3.5" wide). I'd like to purchase Western Digital EIDE drives for both of them, but I can't afford to do so right now. I'm worried that I won't be able to find these soon, as the market has gone toward SATA (serial ATA) drives, which have a much faster throughput rate. (According to the specs, SATA can push data at 3 Gb/sec vs. EIDE/PATA at 100 Mb/sec.)

I realize this is purely a want, not a need, as I already have enough external drive storage. What's driving this is the waning availablity of these drives. I'm afraid these will be out of stock by the time I'm ready to buy them.

[Added 20:45]
Here's what I'd like to purchase next month:
1) Western Digital "Caviar Blue" WD5000AAJB (500 Gb, EIDE, 8 Mb cache)
2) Western Digital "Scorpio Blue" WD2500BEVE (250 Gb, EIDE, 8 Mb cache)

The highway never sleeps......

Some more bullet points:

* I'm gazing over I-70 westbound, and there's still a lot of traffic. No matter what time I'm looking at the highway, there seems to be light to moderate traffic where I am.

* Indianapolis water tastes funny. Maybe its the hardness of the water, or the chlorine. Or I'm used to drinking filtered water.

* Living a minimalist lifetyle gets boring very fast. There's nothing for me to do, except catch up on my reading and watch TV. Maybe that's why I chose to surround myself with stuff. But I do feel like there's a load off my mind.

* Lots of Colts fans in Indy. Well, duh. They're having a great season. I can't say the same for the Bengals.