Hard drive compatibility q?

My pb's hard drive died and I am going to do the replacement myself. I am a little bit confused on the compatibility though. I'd like to get a 7200 rpm drive and I know that SATA drives won't work. Looking at newegg.com, there are two interfaces ATA-6, and IDE Ultra ATA-100. Which one of these will work? I looked at a specs page and it says my drive is ATA-100. The one I want to purchase is under ATA-6 and is:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146046
I also looked at OWC (macsales.com) and after inputting my model of PB, one of the models which is apparently compatible appears to be the same as at newegg but 13+shipping more expensive:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0A25022/
thanks in advance!
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The Hitachi drive you are contemplating will be fine, though you could save yourself a little money by going for a 5400RPM drive if you are not really going to make the most of the 7200RPM's speed with disk intensive applications.
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