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<blockquote data-quote="Tullux" data-source="post: 293375" data-attributes="member: 80794">I've got another F1 with 320GB (the one with one high density platter) for my main system.It's performance is close to the excellent Velociraptor (~90mb/s read/write for the F1 vs. ~100mb/s for the velociraptor) and the price is amazing -&nbsp; cost me 40 Euro.Seems like a very good choice for a budget HTPC as single disk or a very cheap, silent and performant RAID 0 setup.Using that instead of the 750GB would put the price for above system &lt;300 Euro, which is quite nice.Edit: I have unplugged the Harddisk LED on the Antec - it's way too bright and with the HTPC just below the TV, it got annoying. One might consider not plugging it in from the start.Still didn't manage to get the TV Card to work with mediaportal <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> - went for Dscaler instead, which also offers nice tweaks to get the noisy analogue cable signal to a somewhat watcheable level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tullux, post: 293375, member: 80794"] I've got another F1 with 320GB (the one with one high density platter) for my main system. It's performance is close to the excellent Velociraptor (~90mb/s read/write for the F1 vs. ~100mb/s for the velociraptor) and the price is amazing - cost me 40 Euro. Seems like a very good choice for a budget HTPC as single disk or a very cheap, silent and performant RAID 0 setup. Using that instead of the 750GB would put the price for above system <300 Euro, which is quite nice. Edit: I have unplugged the Harddisk LED on the Antec - it's way too bright and with the HTPC just below the TV, it got annoying. One might consider not plugging it in from the start. Still didn't manage to get the TV Card to work with mediaportal :( - went for Dscaler instead, which also offers nice tweaks to get the noisy analogue cable signal to a somewhat watcheable level. [/QUOTE]

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