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I ordered 5 of the Hitachi 7k2000 2tb drives from Amazon for $109.99 ea last week (still at that price): http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-Deskstar-7200RPM-Internal-0S02861/dp/B003S6ID20/ The box says they are SATAIII drives with 64MB cache even though the product page indicates they are 32MB...

On the amp input side, you could just use 2x 3.5mm to RCA cables and 2x RCA to RCA F-F adapters. Just invert the channels on the RCA to RCA links.

My HTPC has been in one for the past year. Over the years, I've gone through about 5 different cases for my HTPC and it is the only one that I've been happy with in terms of noise and appearance. I stuck with the stock fans - they move a decent amount of air and are very quiet. I have a...

Yes, running 2xWD20EARS. If you can, try to get the WD20EARS-00MVWB0 drives (Newer 3 platter version) instead of the WD20EARS-00S8B1. I have one of each in the NAS and the 00MVWB0 drive runs 5 degrees C cooler. The NAS took care of the advanced format automatically. By "initialize the...

I just picked up a DS210j (same cpu/ram as DS410j but with two drives) last week and am very happy with it so far. Using it as a media/print/backup server. Getting around 25MB/s write and 30MB/s read speeds on GbE. It only has an 800mhz cpu and 128mb of ram, so not very powerful, but it sips...