So, really, anything over 5400 RPM won't ever really be noticed. Newer drives that use DMA, UATA, ATA-6, whatever-fancy-feature aren't any better than your bog standard 5400 RPM IBM, Toshiba, Hitachi, whatever drive from 6 years ago.
So don't go crazy and buy a spec'ed out new hard drive when another drive on the used market can save you $100.
One thing that's nice about new drives is the _huge_ buffer. 8 MB of buffer can be nice when you are constantly accessing the same info. It can also help to keep power expenditure down. Combined with setting the Mac OS's disk cache to some ridiculous value, you can really (being a relative term, of course) save battery life while on the road.
Peace, Drew --
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