my $.02...
Every Seagate I've ever owned has failed, so I cannot recommend them. Their E grade might be a different story, but I am done with them entirely.
I do not recommend going with Green drives. They time out and spin down after only 6 seconds, leading to very high head load counts...
^^^ These are great. But buy it directly from newegg (Rosewill is a newegg brand). CCEX052215 for 10% of fnew few days... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042
I have a few of these, and they work wonderfully. I've used them with WD drives and I have yet to have a...
(background info first, can be skipped to get to main issue of refurbished drives after smileys)
I needed some more hdd space, and I have been following the BackBlaze data for some time now. They updated only 2 days ago: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
After the annoyance of...
EVGA 850 B2
850 watts stable at 50+c, single 12v rail, plenty of PCI-E 6+2 connectors for future upgrades, 5-year warranty. $85, $65 with the $20 rebate. Future-proof for you, a good deal atm.
Intel Core i5-4590
$200+tax Plenty of power for your purposes, with extra power to support a...
I started having weird disconnect/reconnect issues with USB devices a week or two ago. They seemed to get more and more frequent. To the point that sometimes, I couldn't use my mouse at all for seconds to minutes. Extremely laggy mouse to boot.
Basic symptoms: very laggy mouse...