Drive for slackware

[Mr.Gig]

I looking to add a cheap hard drive and throw a distro of slackware or some other linux distro and learn how to use that distro. Any suggestions?

[Adcadet]

if price is your main concern, I'd look into pricewatch.
If you care about performance and not price, I'd look at Storage Review's leaderboard.
If you care about both....then that's tricky.

I unfortunately don't have a current "favorite cheap HD".

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[Mercutio]

WD600AB = $90. 60GB and pretty damn fast for a 5400rpm-class drive.
If nothing else a Maxtor DM40+ 20GB will run you a little over $70. I'd pay the $20 for 200% more space.

[Tannin]

Big fan of the Samsung Spinpoint 5400 RPM drives here. Good seek performance, great price (quite often the cheapest of them all), and superb reliability.
These days, the only time I buy anything else is if Samsung are out of stock. (Or if I'm looking for a different type of drive, of course - A SCSI drive or a 7200 or whatever.)