Hard drive question

Hello again,

im planning on building a pc with the stuff below,

amd 64 3500
Kingmax PC3500 SuperRAM 433Mhz 1GB (2 x 512Mb)
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939 Motherboard
XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB AGP DDR3 Dual DVI & TV Out Retail
thermalright xp120 and a 120mm fan


and of course cd drive, dvd drive, floppy, psu etc

but im stuck with the hardrive, i was going to get a 36gb raptor, but i think it would be too good for the other stuff, and it would also be loud as it runs at 10000 rpm, any suggestions on what harddrive i should get, i dont want it to be any bigger than 60gb, but somthing that would match the other stuff,

 

Aaaah c'mon man, you have a nice system there and you don't want a decent size harddrive? Why not look at an 80gb 7200rpm drive?

 

yeh 80gb would be fine, but ive got 40gb at the moment and i use about 10gb of it, but 80gb will be ok, so do you agree that a raptor is too good for my system, of course they are faster, but are they loud?

 

Maxtor drives are my first choice, just that's the way I am

 

Maxtor drive w/ 16mb cache and NCQ is going to be a better choice than the 36gb Raptor drive anyway.

If you are goign to get a raptor, go with the 74gb model.

 

Note the comparison:

 

Vs. the 74GB model:

 

I'm guessing that the money is not a big issue to you.
If it was me, I would get an ultra 320 scsi card and
a 36gb Seagate 15,000 rpm drive. I just spotted a brand new
one on ebay for 209 bucks with a buy it now.
Screaming fast access time with bulletproof build quality
that no regualar drive could compare to.
Scsi drives are rated at over a million hours before failure
running 24/7.
Ata/Sata drives are usually rated around half that, and not at 24/7 operation.
Those Seagate scsi drives were close to a thousand bucks when they came out.
If you do this though, make sure to have good cooling because
15k drives run pretty hot.

Oh yeah, this is important. There are a lot of different connectors
on scsi drives. You want to get the 68 pin version drive and adapter card.