Best hard drive to expand Power Mac g5

Hi,
I know i need to be looking for a SATA hard drive, but in terms of compatibility, is there a difference between SATA and SATA II?
What are the most "reasonable" brands/types to look for? Im looking for 200 - 300 gigs, and money is always an issue.
Thanks!

I would shop at http://www.macsales.com/ or http://www.newegg.com/
When you find a drive or drives you're considering I would check them out at
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso
At this time I would stay away from Seagate 7200.9 and 7200.10 drives. There have been problems wih them. Lately I've heard good things about Hitachi drives.

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Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Is this article correct or am I misunderstanding it?
Yes, to both - the article is correct, and yes, you seem to be misunderstanding it.
In the context of the article, "Disc drive" does not mean a hard drive. Earlier in the article it states -
Solution
"Disc drive" refers to CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, Combo drives, SuperDrives.
The reason is that on most (if not all) G4s, an optical drive must be jumpered as Master in order for it to be a bootable drive. So, if an optical drive has been jumpered as Slave, it can not then be used to boot from the OSX Install disk.
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Thank you for the info, Matt.
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