HDD: Buy advice needed

!Hola senores y senoritas!

I need your help. Don´t know which drive to buy... and don´t know nothing about the S-ATA, UATA, U133 - Stuff (only thing I know: At this moment I have an IBM 40 GB and a Maxtor 80 GB (each 7200rpm) both running UDMA-5).

Following offers:

Maxtor Diamondmax Plus9 U133 200GB 7200rpm 8MB Cache - 130 Euro

WD S-ATA Caviar Special ED 200GB 8MB Cache 8,9ms 7200rpm WD2000JD - 140 Euro

WD Caviar 200GB 2MB Cache 8,9ms 7200rpm WD2000BB - 120 Euro

WD Caviar 160GB 8MB Cache 8,9ms 7200rpm WD1600JB - 97 Euro

Hitachi Vancouver III 160GB 8MB Cache U100 - 95 Euro

If the information is needed:
I´m using my Computer for gaming about 70 % of the time (=much install&uninstall ). The rest surfing around and working for school.

Thank you
Bigsexy

I would get the WD 160Gb, unless you want to spend more for the extra 40 Gb (it's cheaper than later getting a 40Gb drive or somthing), then I would get the 200Gb Maxtor.

You probably don't need even 160Gb for just general stuff and gaming though, so over that (or even that) is probably overkill.

All right! Ordered the 160 Gig ... I think you´re right saying I won´t need that much... but seeing UT2004 with a weight of 5.5 Gig on the disk I want to be on the safe side in the future.

Thanks for your advice!

Good choice, I would have gone with either the 200Gb or the 160Gb Western Digital drives, but the extra cache on the 160Gb disk would have got my vote, good call