[MrToxin]

I recommend Maxtor drives. Unless you specifically bought otherwise, your computer is 99% likely to be IDE.

As for backups, a more cost-effective way is to snag a small harddrive and just copy important files to it periodically. You could also snag some cheap web hosting and never put a website on it and use it to store copies of important files that you allow only FTP access to, but that might be a bit overkill unless you plan on having a website too (this is how I backup my files, as I have a website and more bandwidth and storage than I can currently use)