Flipping through some flyers and came across this ad. Anyone have any experiences with this model hard drive. Is this compatible with my G4500 Dual? Looks like a pretty good deal.

Staples.ca
Maxtor*Ultra 160GB 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive.
Item Number*504516

$129.95
*Each Next Business Day
Satisfy your need for speed and capacity with the Maxtor Ultra Series Hard Drive Kit. Up to 20% faster than regular 7200 RPM hard drives, the drive features an 8 MB cache, fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motor, and Ultra ATA/133 interface.

Features:
* 160GB Capacity
* Ideal for high-end gaming and digital video 7200 RPM ATA/IDE hard drive
* Ultra fast 8MB cache buffer - up to 20% faster performance
* Ultra ATA/133 interface - up to 33% faster data transfer rates
* Ultra quiet operation with fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motor
* less than 9ms average seek time
* Easy installation
* Includes intelligent formatting and partitioning software
* Complete upgrade kit

This hard drive should work for you.As far as I know, any ATA iDE hard drive will work in your machine. The 8 MB cache buffer will give a slight speed bump, although the ATA/133 interface won't make a diference to you, but it is backward compatible.
I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with (FDB) fluid dynamic bearings, and I find the drive to be quite quiet. Had it for about a year now and no complaints.

If I'm not mistaken the IDE HDD size limit on that G4 model is 120GB. So the 160GB will be seen as a 120GB on the MB IDE bus. If you use a PCI ATA card that limit can be defeated ...

if you don't mind coming into Toronto, CanadaComputers has that hard drive for $112.

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http://canadacomputers.com/storage.html#hdd