Originally posted by NoisySilence
You can't get optimal hard drives for a board, but you can get optimal hard drives for your needs.
It all depends on you. This board can have a total of 4 IDE devices, so if you allready have a DVD & CD-RW, you have two places left for HDDs.
Since you have the deluxe version, you can add SATA drives, in normal mode or in RAID setups ( up to two drives I believe ).
If you're not going for SATA, I believe many people like the WD drives with 8mb Cache. Or Seagate if you're into a silent machine.
As for SATA drives, I can't really say since I haven't used any. You can always get normal IDE drives & use a SATA-to-IDE converter.
SATA is supposed to bring the transfer speeds up to 150mb/s, much better then ATA133 but since the SATA chip is connected to the PCI bus on the board, you'll still be limited the PCI's 133mb/s transfer speed ( in other words, you won't be getting the maximum of your SATA drives ).