Hard Drives that work well with my board

Hi,
My current hard drive situation is shown in my sig below. I'm putting the 40GB Maxtor IDE drive in another computer I have lying around and was thinking about replacing it with a more modern IDE drive. I have several questions though:
1) From personal experience which hard drives work best with the neo 4?
2) Is it worth using a new IDE drive for my OS and then using the 80GB Maxtor S-ATA drive for storage or use the new IDE drive I plan to buy for storage?
The IDE drive I like the look of at the moment is one that won best buy in Computer Shopper. It is: Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 160GB ATA-133 8MB Cache
See: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/hitachi_ide.html
I like the look of it but is it the best choice?
p.s. I hate SATA hard drives and won't buy another if I can help it, problem after problem for now anyway

Quote from: blazing storm on 31-August-05, 03:45:35
p.s. I hate SATA hard drives and won't buy another if I can help it, problem after problem for now anyway
Heres my 2 cents. After watching posts on this forum regarding sata versus pata hdds, it seems to me that users start to have problems when they mix and match between the two types of hdds. I dont know if this is a software or bios issue, but I have not had any problems with any sata hdd that I have owned (I sold my 160gb seagate ncq sata1 hdd before I purchased the hitachi sata2 hdds).
I have these 2 hitachi sata2 80gb drives in a raid0 format and they are fast (or at least its all in my head anyway to justify my purchase). Anyway, at $55 per 80gb hdd, its what I would recommend. The only way to get something faster is to purchase a WD raptor hdd.
Plus, the hitachi hdds have a feature that if you want to make them noiseless, you can...but you have to slow down the hdd to sata1 speeds. Neat if you want to silence your rig.
Here is the hdd that I purchased at ZZF:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=100590-2

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