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xrdotimcr

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Like the title says I'm buliding myself a Techstation, and I have a list of all the parts that I'm going to get. I know what I'm doing and with that being said this isn't one of those "OMGZORRRZZ PREASE HELPZ ME!!!" threads. I just want to see what some other people think about my stuff. If you have suggestions on cheaper/same price things that would help me out, that would be great, but nothing that I can't get off of Newegg please. I also don't want to spend more than 350 dollars. I already have an Operating System and an External Enclosure that I'm going to use to hook up IDE harddrives up to it. A KVM switch, which I'm picking up on Friday will be used, so no keyboard, monitor, or a mouse for this machine. Well, here's what I've got picked out.

Case with motherboard included. Just gonna use the onboard video.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16856101238

Processor.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819104249

RAM. Would've gone with 256, but with the onboard video, I felt I needed 512mb
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820231029

Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822140167

SATA 5.25" "SwapBay". So I can easily hook up and format/retrieve info from SATA Drives.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817123122

That's what I'm planning on getting. I have a CD Burner that will be going in it, I might pick up a cheap DVD-R/W though, incase I have to retrieve a lot of info or something.

It's gonna run XP Pro and Vista in dual boot. Maybe someother Linux OS, not sure yet.

Lemme hear it.


xrdotimcr
 
If you are going to use the swap bay then you will have to either aways have a hard drive in it or use a controller card that supports hot swapping.
 
I did not know that, never done any "Hot Swapping"
But would I be able to just turn off the computer, insert the drive, and then power it on.
Would I be able to do that everytime, just like you'd have to do with and IDE one?
I don't see why not.
 
Hot swapping means that you can insert and remove the device while the computer is "hot," i.e. running Windows. IDE drives aren't officially hot-swappable, nor do I recommend trying it at all. Most, if not all Serial ATA drives are hot-swappable with the cooperation of a chip/chipset that supports the feature. Windows 2000/XP support hot-swapping out of the box.
 
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