Biggest hard drive for MDD G4

What is the biggest capacity had drive that will work in a Mac like mine?
An Apple guy at CompUSA told me that the G4 MDD will not take more that 150gig drives. I need some insight. I just bought an internal 150gig drive (after listening to the Mac guy), and want to know if I can get a larger one as well.
Your friend in Mac OS X,
Jose

48-bit, but what's 6-bits anyway?
Even WD still insists, and refuses to amend its docs on G4's to state that QS 2002 and later, like MDDs, don't need an ATA/133 PCI to use drives larger than 128GB.
500GB drives have gotten to be $145 and popular.

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