Looking at a new HDD and a PSU (again with the PSUs) - Hardware & Software

Right, I'm still a bit pissed I sent that Antec one back when i didn't need to, but when I went to re-order it, I found they put the price up (a whole £2 :aaa:). So I looked around a bit, and saw this: [url]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152505[/url] It's on offer and is about £10 cheaper than the Antec Earthwatts now, but I can't find many reviews from trusted sources anywhere for this particular one. I found some on Newegg, but they are mixed. (One guy complaining about a high pitched buzzing from 2 new units, two people saying there was no buzzing). So does anyone know if this is a good stable PSU for a PC with a Radeon HD 4670, AMD Athlon 64X2 4000+, 3 sticks DDR2 RAM (I know they don't add up to much) and possibly two hard drives. The new hard drive I was looking at made me wonder a bit at first as it seems stupidly cheap to me. [url]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150256[/url] I did notice the buffer is small, but it's 8 times bigger than the one on my current OEM drive, so anythings a improvement. But like I said, I'm a bit suspicious due to the price, most other 1TB drives I looked at were a fair amount more expensive. So either of these any good? I kind of need a answer as soon as possible as I want to get the order done so it comes this week or the very start of the next. And I promise this should be the last one of these I make for a while :downs:

OCZ makes good psu's. I think Hitachi is low quality.

I have the 600W version of that PSU, I bought it about 7 months ago and it's been fine since then, it's also quiet - currently powering Q9550 @ 3.4Ghz, HD4890, 8GB 800Mhz, GA-EP45-UD3R, 2 HDD's, 5 120mm fans, 2 sata optical drives.

Ahh, good to know that the guy who heard buzzing is just crazy then. Thats one down, now to figure out whether the hard drive will fail me. If I was willing to pay out £4 more I could buy a Samsung drive, and I've never had any trouble with anything Samsung have made in the past. All I'm really going to do is partition the drive and multi-boot my system. That is, until the Win7 RC locks.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;16179011]Ahh, good to know that the guy who heard buzzing is just crazy then. Thats one down, now to figure out whether the hard drive will fail me. If I was willing to pay out £4 more I could buy a Samsung drive, and I've never had any trouble with anything Samsung have made in the past. All I'm really going to do is partition the drive and multi-boot my system. That is, until the Win7 RC locks.[/QUOTE] Get the Samsung, the Hitachi Deskstar, people have given it the name "Death Star", for obvious reasons.

Might just do that, I've heard the Hitachi doesn't die as much anymore, but apparently they vibrate like a bitch. [editline]10:28PM[/editline] Hmm, looking into the Samsung one a bit more it's one of their "green" drives, and the spindle is only 54000 RPM compared to the Hitachis' 72000 RPM, would I notice a difference? Or should I risk it? I'm feeling risk it. The reviews seem mostly positive. [editline]11:13PM[/editline] Fuck it, I'm taking the risk and leaving my old drive in just in case. Apparently the 7K1000.B models are not so asplodey.