[mythtv-users] harddrive suggestions?

[and]

I just fried my new 120gb maxtor diamondmax plus 9 last night while 
trying to improve the airflow around it....It got incredibly hot when 
even moderately in use...almost so hot that I couldn't touch it. Too 
hot actually ho close my mini-itx case.

I'm now looking for one that wont get as how and I was wondering is 
someone would have a recommendation. I need a ata/udma133 drive that is 
not too expensive at a decent size for Mythtv. I have a feeling that 
the 120gb disk was great, but maybe a little excessive and an 80gb 
might be plenty for a mythtv/music combined front/backend machine based 
on epia m10000.

I also did my last installation based on debian woody (hard to get via 
video driver to work), with custom xfre86e and kernel, but I was 
wondering if I might be better of with another distro such as 
redhat-9.0 as VIA only supplies drivers for redhat mandrake and suse.

Any suggestions?

thanks
anders