CplMOFO
Dark Asylumn
your hard drive is gonna be a major bottle neck. it only has a 16 mb buffer. tbh if you could wait a few weeks the prices should start coming back down on the hard drives before the floods for 99 you could get a wd 64mbs sata 6.0 gb/s black edition 1 tb.
here is a 2 tb wd green 64 mb/s drive for less than 40 more honestly this drive will perform alot better than that 16mb drive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514
if 135 is too much for you here is a wd green 32 mb/s 500gb drive for 109 that will be alot better than the 16mb your looking at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136358
Well Dark,
I'm saying your mostly right, this is a $$$ issue at the moment, all the good HDD's prices are thru the roof.. I remind the price of the WD Black 1TB 64mo to be around $79 a few months back!
Some HDD manufacturers will soon start to resume production, and hopefully this will cause the prices to drop back to when they were...
As for the WD GREEN....they're not bad drives, but they're mostly storage drives, because they're made to save on electricity, they park the "reading head" really often, it's like they go to sleep a lot more often than regular drives...that's why I'm not too fond on those to be used as Operating System drive...
im not the biggest fan of the greens used as op sys drives but compared to the 16mb drive hes looking at. the green will do a much better job at running his system