About 2 weeks ago I put the WD 74GB 10k drive in my machine as a replacement Windows system and application drive. It's great. Quiet, and doesn't get all that hot. Reinstalling everything is a major PITA.

You will need to create a slipstream install CD because the windows XP installer does not know how to work the SATA controller. I recommend using nlite to do this, rather than doing it manually. With nlite you just click the options you want and it makes the image file for you. Put SP2 on the slipstream while you're at it.

Its considerably faster than my other drives. I'm pleased with it. I didn't want to screw around with SCSI either, even though I know it is vastly superior.

I put my poker hand database (postgresql) on that drive too and it improved the performance dramatically.

FWIW,

Jim