i personally own a maxtor sata drive and i must say that i'm very proud of it. i've tested it many times and it's a 15%/25% faster than an ATA133 drive. also that gives me an extra IDE slot. now imagine 2 SATA drives with RAID configuration i can't say anything bad about it perfomance or silent but... they're generally expensive. another thing that it's annoying it's that many OS does not have propper drivers so talking about windows i must load the driver during installation and for example knoppix (linux live cd) can read from the disk but not write to it. the solution it's time, but as a conclusion i recommend you my maxtor 6Y120M0 (120gb, 7200rpm, ≤ 9.3 ms average seek time, 8MB Cache Buffer, sata... read more)