Hard drive size and its effect on battery life

My hard drive recently failed on my powerbook and am in the market for a new one. Though the original was only 60GB I have settled on buying either a 120GB or 160GB probably from seagate (momentus 5400.3) or possibly Hitachi.
I was just wondering how much have a bigger hard drive reduces battery life? What will the diffence be having a 120 rather than 60? And would it be that much worse getting the 160? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

If you look at the Seagate hard drive specs at http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/dsmomentus5400.pdf you'll see that all of their drives use the same levels of power.

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will they work?
cheers

is there a maximum hard drive size the emac will take?
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