Good internal SATA drives for a DPG5 2G

I have 2 internal drives:
Maxtor 6H500F0
Maxtor 7H500F0
I've put in the jumper to limit the transfer speeds, BUT these are running SLOW. Sometimes my system comes to a beach ball crawl, and duplicating a 10M file has taken as long as 20 secs.
I'm looking for 500G minimum, and good for audio/video editing. Anybody have suggestions for drives that work well OR maybe what's wrong with these??
DP2G G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Are you sure your system is okay?
Today I did a fresh install & UG to 10.4.7 on another partition of the drive having trouble. It took forever, and while booted on this fresh system I'm getting the same results. Duplicating a 40M file took about a minute, and the whole system beach balled while it was doing it & I never even got a progress bar. I'm going to have another look at the jumper on this drive, but if I don't find a solution quick I'm just going to replace it. I'm not sure what else to do here & in the past, trying to "fix" these things has wound up being a waste of time.
DP2G G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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