i am writing a sort of review of my new hard drive.

Maxtor DiamondMaz Plus D740X
I got the 40gb version and it is great. You can hear a faint high-pitch whining sound but when it is accessing the gard drive it is extremely quiet. Video editing is really fast. On my old 5400 drive it would take about 7 minutes to edit a 30 minute show twice as long for 60 min. Now it takes about 4 minutes. i am using Womble MpegVCR. In my opinion this is a great drive. I cant do AVi recording because i only have a 600Athlon. I also have 576mb ram.