Rod H Wrote:Weren't Hitachi's HDD division once IBM? If so makes a change from the old days of the deathstar drives.I'm not sure, but I think so... I do know that we use Hitachi drives at work, where 99.9% uptime isn't good enough.
Nowadays, 5400RPM drives are for archival storage, not main drives. I have 5400RPM drives in my NAS - they're slower than the USB2 connection between the thumbdrives and the PC.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145473]This drive looks pretty good for a 7200RPM 2TB Hitachi. (There's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145475]a less-expensive one, but it only has half the cache. Alternately, there's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145472]a 3TB drive that's only $80 more than the 2TB one I recommended, but I don't know how big the cache on it is.)
Edit: Power supply: the more you have, the more you can put in the box. Do you want to add a second HDD sometime, or a Blu-Ray drive? Do you plan to upgrade the graphics card sometime down the road? If you do, you'll need more power... (Speaking of Blu-Ray drives, where's the optical drive in your setup?)
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