I've had nights where I'm trying to sleep and the blinking of the blue LED HD light on my computer can be noticed even with my eyes closed. That's the only one that really bother me, though from my pillow I can see about 11 other LEDs.

They let you smoke pot at work?

This is going to be necessary for more than just hard drives. Lots of multimedia devices are going to start needing significantly higher bandwidth. 4K video (2x2 times higher resolution than HD 1080P), faster removable flash memory for downloading your 150 megapixel images (from the prototype sensor Canon just announced), etc etc. Granted, most of this will be transferring to/from hard drives, but as several people mention blow, SSD HD speed is increasing. There's already a company that sells a PCI-E card with 16 flash chips RAIDed that can saturate a 10 gbit ethernet pipe.

Jerry?

K-K-K-K-King Combo!

If you never sit down...I mean, how many people have died of old age while standing up? I'd say almost everyone of them died sitting or lying down.