Hard drive

I'm still not sure what to do about a hard drive. I've decided that I'm not going to go for that 10,000 RPM Western Digital drive. I want it, but I'll wait until I have a computer with a motherboard that supports SATA. The price of the controller card I'd need coupled with the price of the drive is more than I want to spend.

I have pretty much decided that I do want to get a new drive though. Rather than trying to dual boot with Windows I want to just get a "blank" drive and start from scratch (and install Gentoo if I can). Problem is, I'm not even sure if my computer supports ATA 100. I looked back through my computer documentation and it seems like it might only support up to ATA 66 (I have an old computer already). I don't know enough about it to know whether an ATA 100 (or 133) drive would work with that.

Then as I've been shopping more, pretty much all the 80g drives from all the major manufacturers are around the same price, but the major variables seem to be a quieter spindle technology and a 2mb buffer vs. a regular spindle technology and an 8mb buffer. Here's the search I'm at right now.

I want a 80-120g 7200 RPM ATA drive under $100. If anyone can offer any recommendations I'd appreciate it. Oh, and if anyone has any recommendations for a UPS, please let me know.

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