Now days the rpm on the UDMA drives on and IDE bus is pretty much moot. That is because the areal density is much higher than when the beiges came out. For instance the stock 6 gig drive transfers about 8 megs a second. IDE supports up to 16 megs a second. However now a Maxtor 5400 rpm drive can do 24 megs a second and a 7200 rpm can do 30+ megs a second. Either way the IDE controller is the bottleneck. UDMA drives have slower access times than SCSI, so I would look for a drive with a lower data access time over rpms with the stock controller.
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