Technology - Shuttle PC- choosing Disc

Technology - Shuttle PC - choosing disk

Issues

As with the other components my main priorities are low noise and reliability. I vaguely remember seeing something about Seagate being better in this respect but I could be wrong.

I decided to get a single medium capacity disk, It would be good to have a RAID array but at this stage I wanted to keep it simple. In the future it may be a better option to get a second system and connect them with gigabyte LAN?

I chose

160 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA 7200rpm 8MB cache HDD with NCQ

Manufacturer Code ST3160827AS

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