ATA-100 or 133?

I'm contemplating upgrading the measly 40GB HD in my 1GHz eMac and believe I need an ATA disk but I apparently have ATA-133 and wonder if that's what I have to look for. I see a lot of ATA-100 drives around and not many 133 ones.
I've seen some other posts related to upgrading the HD but thought I may as well write my own.
I do have a 300GB seagate ATA-100 disk in an external enclosure and was considering swapping this into the eMac and then maybe getting a bigger disk for the enclosure. I'm guessing that it would work but a 133 disk might give better performance. Is this correct? if that is so then I might be better getting a 133 and sticking that straight into the eMac. I want the better performing disk to be in the eMac.
Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Thanks Bill.
Now I'm just wondering whether it might be worth sticking a superdrive in as they're not expensive. I'm looing at the Pioneer DVR-112D which I believe is the correct one to go for but I'm not sure if there are incompatible versions of this drive or is there just the one and it's safe to buy.
I do have a Firewire DVD burner but an internal one would obviously be a lot neater.
Anyway thanks again.

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