> .... But I am concerned about reliability and performance.
well, I've no real comments there - I've used Maxtor, Seagate,
WD (gasp! :-), IBM, ... I had one WD fail at the end of warranty,
and they replaced it even though I did not contact them until after
the warranty had expired. However, they also fudge on the specs...
> And, most of all, I would like to know
> whether LM 8.0 can handle a 20.4 Gig hard drive in the first place.
I had 8.0 talking happily to a 40 gig drive, so I think the answer
is a resounding 'yes' :-)
rc