I would go Seagate or Hitachi. see if there's one with a 16MB buffer. I think Seagate would be my preference. -- Taylor Barcroft New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 barcroft (gizmo) kungax (Skype) kungag5 (iChat-AIM) On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:19 PM, mac.k at a2k.ch wrote: > i'd like to go for a 120gb 5'400 rpm drive. any suggestions? any > brand i > should avoid?