Assuming your motherboard is sufficiently modern:
A fast drive -- and I'm not just talking interfaces. Get one that operates at at least 7200 RPM, and supports at least Ultra DMA/100 (make sure your motherboard is capable of this, as well; otherwise, you can't use it!) if you're planning on purchasing an IDE drive. If you're going for SCSI -- well, I've not worked with that very much, but if you can do SCSI you should also be able to choose drives by yourself
Though, you may want to wait a bit for Serial ATA to become popular. It's a promising technology that looks to seriously increase the speeds of IDE hard drives; minimum-maximum transfer rates are expected to be 150 MBps -> 600 MBps, respectively. You will, of course, need a new motherboard (and the OS must evolve as well), but for speed gains like that I'd do it.
But for the here and now...I've an 80 gig IBM DeskStar (can't remember the model name, but perhaps the stuff I'm about to paste will help you) in this machine, and it works very well for capturing and editing digital video, if you're interested in pursuing stuff made by Big Blue:
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trythil@lothlann trythil $ dmesg | grep hdf
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x7400-0x7407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
hdf: IC35L080AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdf: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=159560/16/63, UDMA(100)
root@lothlann trythil # hdparm -t -T /dev/hdf
/dev/hdf:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.76 seconds =168.42 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.42 seconds = 45.07 MB/sec
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