Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"We need a digital camera that can be switched on and fire off that first shot fast. It's not a commonly tracked statistic on any review site, and nobody seems to have this information for every camera. We were hoping other readers could inform us as to what small digital cameras can fire off their first pics in under a second (ideally under half a second). It needs to be small, but mostly, just really quick in operation. Thanks!"
whats all the fuss about, mainstream sata and pata drives are pieces of fkn junk that top out at a miserable 40MB/s and have been bottlenecking pcs for over 20 years, & are the principle cause of low frame rates and stutters in games because most games workloads are over 80MB/s and page the hdd constantly for textures and mipmaps, and need parallel processing like GPUS to mask their poor performance. Seriously who gives a
s*** about sata drives. boohoo
If the price is such a big issue, why not just import from the US. The power supply is universal and Hi-Def is the same (there is no PAL/NTSC).
As for bigger drives, 60 instead of 80 is not a big jump so if you really want more storage, then swap out the drive yourself (although I did read there is a 137Gb limititaion due to the current BIOS), or add an external USB or Networked drive.