I agree with Tony on the Hitachis. I have 2 in a FW case (with the new Oxford 912 chip) attached to the PB I'm typing this on, and they work great.
The other advantage of going with one of the 16MB cahe drives (at least the Maxtors), is that they are *native* (Maxtors are the first) SATA drives. The native command queing adds some efficiencies (in theory at least) that other ATA drives don't have. Barefeats think highly of them because they're not a SATA/IDE bridge drive like most other SATA drives. Also, the MaxLineIII is pretty much the same as the DiamondMax III, but is supposedly more reliable (and has a longer 3 year warranty), so the extra cost of the MaxLineIII may be justified.
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[Tony!] "Now, he was looking for four drives instead of two. You could start with two drives if you wanted. I usually recommend the Hitachi 250gb drives with the 8mb caches (There are hard drives with 16mb caches available now too). The Hitachi are cost effective, fast and usually reliable. Hitachi is the brand used by most of the current RAID manufacturers. Apple even uses them in the Xserve RAID. Barefeats.com can give you more info on how drives compare as well, so you may want to read up on it a little. I think moving to SATA and leaving your old SCSI machine behind is the way to go. Even a Firewire RAID like the G-RAID or LaCie Bigger Disk would be preferable: http://www.medea.com/ http://www.store.yahoo.com/medeacorp/graid.html "
