HD Recommendation

I was wondering what hard drive you would recommend for me. I have $100 to spend. I need something fast and the storage size dosn't matter. People were telling me to get a WD Raptor. Is that a good choice? I'm open to all decent suggestions.

ATM WD Raptor is the obe to get if you want fast HDD, it spins at 10.000rpm (or is it 15krpm?) with 16mb cache.
0, considerably faster then any other SATA drive (most of them runs at 7200rpm).

Well I made a thread in /g/ but it got deleted. Anyway they were saying the WD Raptor spins at 10k. However I think one of them might have said it was a little unstable. Is that true?

no idea.... about the unstable part. Just google the damn topic....

Unless you put 2 Raptors on a RAID0, it's really not worth it. The speed isn't -that- noticable by themselves, and they're bitchin expensive for the size. (1 74GB is like... $140)

You're better off getting two small 7200s and a RAID controller, IMO. I'm not sure if it'll be faster than a single Raptor, but it'll definitely be more affordable, and a lot bigger.

I'm not worried about size though. I have two 80gb hard drives already in this machine. I just want something fast because its going to be my new primary master because I am upgrading to a better OS (in terms of windows anyway lol).

Ok just one quick question. Would an Enterprise hard drive from WD work in a home computer? I found a drive with 160 GB, 7200 RPM, 16 MB Cache, and a 3.0 Gb/s Transfer rate for $92 but its in the Enterprise section and I was wondering if it would work.

As long as the connector is the same there shouldn't be any problem. Only difference is usually the MTBF and the warranty

So is this "RAID-specific time-limited error recovery" going to be a problem?