Best SATA (80-160gb) drive for Raid Stripe

[Magic]

Hi Guys

I have a SATA1 raid controller on my mboard and was wondering which drives in the SATA (80-160gb) category were the most reliable, as im sick of drives dying on me and i love the raid performance.

Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate, IBM/Hitachi i've had all of these drives before and pretty much all have died within 2 years, apart from the seagate which isnt old enough yet.

As far as i know SATAII drives work on SATAI controllers (correct me if im wrong pls), i think a cheap raid array will give my aging system a good kik up the rear for a while, just want reliability as performance is garunteed with a striped array is it not?

Thanks

 

[Magic]

cheers

it does look as if personal experience is more of a factor than brand (maybe with the exclusion of maxtor - you can feel the love for maxtor in these forums)

Probably leaning towards two 160gb WD's.