My possible new computer

[edyzmedieval]

The Seagate Barracuda is a SATA HDD, which proves to be at a good price(almost 300 euros). Features:

-400GB space
-7200 rpms
-150MB/s

Basically, I think it's a good buy.
The cover has a huge cooling fan, a bit bigger than the one shown by Lemur, and a smaller one up top(normal cooling fan).

As for RAM's, I opted for a dual 1024MB DDRAM Corsair. The performances are good, but if there's room for improvement, I'm open to ideas.

[Papewaio]

The Seagate Barracuda is a SATA HDD, which proves to be at a good price(almost 300 euros). Features:

-400GB space
-7200 rpms
-150MB/s

Basically, I think it's a good buy.
The cover has a huge cooling fan, a bit bigger than the one shown by Lemur, and a smaller one up top(normal cooling fan).

As for RAM's, I opted for a dual 1024MB DDRAM Corsair. The performances are good, but if there's room for improvement, I'm open to ideas.

Its a good buy because it is not SATA II. SATA II has a throughput of 300MB/S

In Aus a 400Gb Seagate 7200.9 7200rpm SATA-II hard disk, 16mb cache, NCQ goes for $396.00 Australian. $1 per MB.
While a 300Gb Seagate 7200.9 7200rpm SATA-II hard disk, 16mb cache, NCQ goes for $203.50. $0.67 per MB.
And 250Gb Seagate 7200.9 7200rpm SATA-II hard disk, 16mb cache, NCQ goes for $176. $0.7 per MB.

At the moment the sweet point for SATAII is around the 250 to 300 GB HDs.

Buy 2 300GB SATAII. Same price as a single 400GB drive.

For speed put them in a RAID 0 array and you will end up with a machine that has 600GB and twice as fast at accessing HD memory. These being SATA II you would have a theoritical transference rate of 600MB/s.

For memory integrity put them in a RAID 1 array (mirroring) and if 1 hard drive dies the other will keep going and you won't lose important information. You will have 300GB but a very safe system for data recovery. You would have a transference rate of 300MB/s and redundancy on your information.

[ZombieFriedNuts]

Where you going to buy all this from

[edyzmedieval]

Thanks for the tips Pape. I'll ask the guys over for some SATAII HDD.
By the way, what's a RAID?

I guess you know computers better than changing nappies....

[Lemur]

A raid is where you tie the function of two or more hard drives together. Here's the texbook definition.

Some of us are both hardware ninjas and nappy-changing ninjas.

[edyzmedieval]

Thanks Lemur.

[LeftEyeNine]

Some of us are both hardware ninjas and nappy-changing ninjas.

Briefly this is called family ninja, Lemur.