[jontz]

I can't tell you for sure that an EIDE drive will or won't work. Different users have had different experiences. IDE always works though, seagate and hitatchi drives seem to be foolproof.

Don't spend the money on the 8MB cache. You are limited by the throughput on the NIC card in your snap, which is about 12MB/sec. That's waayyyy slower than the drive is capable of. More cache won't do anything to help you.