Noob question regarding standard HD's

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Silver5656

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So I am in the process of building a new system. The case I plan on getting allows 5 hd's. I plan on having one "fast" hd, and 4+ slower green drives. Rough specs are i7 920, 850w corsair, 6gb corsair, (not sure on mobo yet), 5850+. I also have an older p4 2.53 comp. I want a lot of hd space (at least 4tb, with expansion for much more (10tb+). I have almost 400 blu rays, and at least 400 dvd's, and at least 1tb in pics. I would prefer an external solution if its viable (price wise). Which solution would allow me to install 6+ hd's for relatively cheap? I could just get a bunch of 2tb drives and put them all into my new build which would give me 10tb but that allows me no ability to expand. I could get a bunch of external enclosures and just swap them. Is there a cheap way to convert my old comp into a large external drive? It only has pci. The cheapest solution I can think of is getting 1 fast hd (perhaps 2tb wd black) and 4 1.5 tb greens. Am i missing something?
 
Assuming that your case has at least three 5.25" bays, just go with the cheapest option you thought of but adding this 4in3 module as well:
$24 - Cooler Master STB-3T4-E3-GP 4 in 3 Device Module w/ 120mm Fan

Would let you get a total of 9 drives into your case.
 
Hi Danny, thanks for your input. My case does allow 5 5.25 drives, however 3 will most likely be taken. If I were to go with 9 drives, I would need a pcie sata card, which might not fit on my mobo if I cf 2 5850's, (although this depends on which mobo I choose)
 
Oh and a few more questions. Is 500gb/platter currently the largest? And I noticed that the 1.5tb greens outperform the 1tb blacks. How do the blues perform? This is because the 1.5 greens use 500gb platters and the 1tb blacks use the 333gb platters, correct?
 
If you decide on external drive option, you would need to choose esata for max speed. USB2.0 or firewire are slow.. especially when you are transferring large files such as movies.
 
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