Archive for the 'Home Theater Personal Computer (HTPC)' Category

Hard Drive for a HTPC

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Any HTPC should have plenty of storage. These days plenty means over 160 GB. This will let you store thousands of pictures, music, TV shows and whatever your heart desires. One of the key things you want to note besides the size is the speed of the drive. Since you might be recording shows, you […]

Optical Drive for a Home Theater PC

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Since you’ll probably want to watch DVD movies and burn audio discs, you’ll need to get a drive capable of both. We’ll do one better. The Pioneer DVR-A09XL (B0007M60ZK) is a great choice here and will burn both CDs and DVDs. It burns double layer DVD+R at 6x speed, single layer DVD+R and DVD-R […]

Floppy Drive for a HTPC

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Though less and less people are using floppies, in the rare occasion you do need one it’s better safe than sorry to have one. The Mitsumi internal floppy drive (B0000DK6IB) will do just fine.