Its time for some more HD space...

I've always been a fan of the Seagate Barracuda PATA / SATA drives which I find to be fairly quiet and reliable.

Several of my suppliers also stock Western Digital and Hitachi drives. Anyone got any experience with these brands?

And a few other HD related questions :

* Who makes the USB / FireWire interface dongle for bare drives (you plug it in the back rather than put it in an enclosure) - this will make service jobs sooo easy... * Its just a SATA bus (not SATA2) in G5s [dual 2Ghz)] right? - I can't seem to find the details on that one...

I'm still miffed that to get a FireWire 800 enclosure I have to pay as much as the drive!

Cheers, Antony.