I have 2 Harddives. 1 is almost 4 years old though, 40 Gb drive. The new one is a 160 Gb Seagate drive I divided up 20 Gb partition had OS and a few other programs 10.5 Gb is free. The other partition 16.6 Gb is free but I still have to install Bf 2 on it. The 40 Gb drive is very loud high pitch sound. I do have a 2 month old dvd burner Ben-Q 1640 very nice drive. The 40 GB wd I want to replace. My board does have SATA. Is Sata reliable can you boot with SATA.
My regular dvd drive started acting flaky. It doesn't recognize the CD or dvd if it is already in drive on boot but will if I open and close. Thinking about getting a more up to date dvd drive.