Recommendations on hardware/systems

[Max Pyziur]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:

> Max Pyziur wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I'm ready to get a new box.  Any recommendations on a Micro-ATX system.  I 
>> see this barebones
>> http://www.ibexpc.com/ib76mibasy1.html
>> 
>> and would like to outfit it with two drives (80GB and 300GB) and a Gig of 
>> RAM (at least) along with a 16x DVD-/+ RW and then install FC6.
>>

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> Hard Drive: Having an 80GB and 300GB I think is a bit silly, unless you have 
> a good reason. But in any case you probably want SATA 3.0Gb/s. If you want

My rationale is to put the OS on the 80 GB and use the large drive for 
/home/users.


> speed and have money go with WD Raptor X, if you want quiet, go with Samsung 
> SpinPoint (400GB for $100 is not bad). You might consider getting two 
> identical drives and configure them into RAID0 (get mobo with onboard raid) 
> for added performance.

Max