Best drive to use with k8n Platinum?

Need to know the fastest drive to use with this board. I'm sort of confused about the different types of interfaces i.e. scsi, IDE, and SATA.

Sampson,
Nowadays all modern ATA and SATA drives in the marked have reached the Performance limitation opposed by the HDD Technology (electromechanic disk drives)...
....performance differences are in the range of few mseconds between different manufacturers and don't really matter, just for marketing purposes if you catch my drift...
There are more important characteristics these days describing HDDs other than performance.
Like reliability, capacity and bug/GB figures.
Taking the vast amount of media and other torrents floating in the net i would go definitely for the largest capacity and bug/GB and good reliability and less for performance.
So if i would tomorrow go and buy a HDD i would go for this beauty here,
http://www.warp2search.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=27610
Take Care,
Markoul

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