Sata drive replacement for G5

I have a Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz circa jan 2006 and the hard drive is making the dieing cry already. I have a carbon copy on an external firewire of my system and am looking to replace my drive which I know is a Diamond max 10 250gb sata.
My difficulty is I don't know what to put in! . I have seen Maxtor DiamondMax 21 - Hard drive - 320 GB - internal - 3.5" - SATA-300 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB but is this compatible with my machine, or would you choose something else and so improve on this?
Your advice would be most appreciated, Thank you
Alan

Lots of people like the Maxtors, they are good drives. They do tend to run very warm and that can shorten life. I like the current generation of Western Digital Drives, check out this 320g model for $75.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136074
The drive is fast, runs reasonably cool, and as you can see, has a very high approval rating. I have 3
WD drives similar to this one in my Mac Pro and could not be happier. The new Seagates are also very good, as, believe it or not, are the Samsungs, The Samsungs are slower tho but run very cool. A great backup drive, but not a good boot drive. Good luck.

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